All Quotes

I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
‐‐ John Eldredge

I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed.
‐‐ Shiloh Walker

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.
‐‐ John Trudell

I don't write books inadvertently.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
‐‐ Umera Ahmad

I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.
‐‐ Francoise Gilot

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.
‐‐ Joshua Ferris

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
‐‐ Evan Dando

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.
‐‐ Clifford Geertz

I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.
‐‐ Claudia Rankine

I don't write for a particular audience.
‐‐ August Wilson

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
‐‐ August Wilson

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
‐‐ Ann Patchett

I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page.
‐‐ Billy Collins

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

I don't write for any particular kind of person.
‐‐ Mary Wesley

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.
‐‐ Jean M. Auel

I don't write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge.
‐‐ Ron Carlson

I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
‐‐ Tamora Pierce

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
‐‐ Nick Cave

I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
‐‐ Alvaro Enrigue

I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I don't write letters anymore.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
‐‐ Jennifer Weiner

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.
‐‐ Jill Scott

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.
‐‐ Mary Roach

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
‐‐ August Wilson

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.
‐‐ Tracy Letts

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
‐‐ Martin Gore

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.
‐‐ Rico Rodriguez

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
‐‐ Andrew Bird

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
‐‐ Roy Cohn

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'
‐‐ Tony Kushner

I don't write punch lines.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.
‐‐ Jay Griffiths

I don't write romance novels.
‐‐ Nicholas Sparks

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
‐‐ Larry David

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

I don't write songs.
‐‐ John Corbett

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.
‐‐ Adele

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
‐‐ Adele

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.
‐‐ John Mayer

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis