If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.' - Trey Parker
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. - J.K. Rowling
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. - Robert Frost
I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that. - Arundhati Roy
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it. - Roald Dahl
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. - Winston Churchill
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. - J.K. Rowling
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. - Carrie Fischer
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made. - Arundhati Roy
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain. - A. A. Milne
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me. - Wayne Dyer
Talk about it, talk about it, and then I physically go write it and come up with the dialogue, and come up with the structure of the scene. - Trey Parker
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. - J.K. Rowling
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. - Arundhati Roy
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. - Roald Dahl
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. - C.S. Lewis
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. - J.K. Rowling
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. - Carrie Fischer
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