Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.
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Related In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st... MARY GARDEN As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately goin... DANIEL RADCLIFFE I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just... LUKE WILSON In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I wo... DAVID A. ADLER I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i... KARL MARLANTES When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live semina... JACK CANFIELD I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London... BEN BRANTLEY I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and cli... DIANE ACKERMAN I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and wri... TOM FELTON I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them ... MITCH ALBOM For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which do... DAN CHAON If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider i... J. A. KONRATH I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who coul... EDDIE MARSAN 'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit... JASON FUCHS If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I als... BEYONCE KNOWLES I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to... VIVICA A. FOX Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write i... TAWNI O'DELL I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours o... JONATHAN MABERRY Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-a... LOUISE PENNY Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruine... AARON STATON I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I... JODIE FOSTER I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was... SKYLAR GREY I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, &... KATHI APPELT I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it&... EMMA ROBERTS I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ... JESS WALTER If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm ... ASTRO The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff ... CHRISTINA MILIAN Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for ... MEG CABOT I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it b... NAYVADIUS CASH Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would ... CARLY SIMON As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anyt... LAURA OSNES Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip t... CARL HIAASEN I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's jus... RYAN REYNOLDS It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd lov... BETSY BRANDT Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimo... PAMELA DEAN For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novel... DAVID GRANN There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... LISA LOEB When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling;... JUSTINA MACHADO Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other t... NANCY FARMER Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write.... TOMMY LEE As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's publishe... DAVID BERGEN A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot,... DOUG TENNAPEL When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor... ZADIE SMITH Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poe... MAYA ANGELOU It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about ... BETH DITTO I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I... MARC ALMOND Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or what... ADAM SCHLESINGER I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything els... JOHN IRVING I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I... ROSE MCGOWAN I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f... STEVE FORBERT I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago ... WHITLEY STRIEBER My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once... SUE MILLER Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a r... MAGGIE SHAYNE I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why... VERONICA ROTH For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studi... JOHN FRUSCIANTE Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day aft... LES WEXNER I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don'... CHUCK NOLL Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode hor... ROBERT DUVALL For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I... KATE GRENVILLE I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu... YURI LOWENTHAL English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controll... ZADIE SMITH I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I... O. R. MELLING I think people sometimes confuse 'catchy' with something that should automatically be a hit ... ADAM SCHLESINGER I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's wo... CLARA BARTON It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally wri... TIM PRATT I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't n... LEON REDBONE I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent beha... AMY ADAMS Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an ol... DAMON GALGUT I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform... VIKRAM SETH Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I ... LYNN COADY Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be dig... M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my... CAMILA CABELLO I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on differe... JOHN SAXON I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my ed... DAVID BERGEN It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgi... RACHEL NICHOLS I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot... VIKRAM SETH I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my... DAVID CHASE Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's... HIROYUKI SANADA Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creativ... ADAM GRANT 'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would t... JOYCE CAROL OATES I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable.... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and ... JOSH TURNER I work out a lot, but it changes day to day. I always start out with some cardio - either a jog, a b... ANA IVANOVIC Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to ... CHARLES FRAZIER I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and... THOMAS KEAN, JR. When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out... CALLUM KEITH RENNIE There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six... OLESYA RULIN Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of p... CHRIS PAVONE I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether i... DAN FOGLER I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice com... CRISTIN MILIOTI Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation ... MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can b... CAROLYN CHUTE I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first n... CAROLINE LEAVITT I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. ... SLASH
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JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea... JANE AUSTEN America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is... JANE ADDAMS The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. JANE ADDAMS Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,... JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara... JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing... JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh... JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether... JANE AUSTEN When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. JANE FONDA Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso... JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear... JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of... JANE BLALOCK It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ... JANE AUSTEN It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy. JANE FONDA Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe... JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ... JANE AUSTEN A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. JANE HEARD