All Quotes

I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.
‐‐ Andrew Dominik

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.
‐‐ Robert Boswell

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

I write a thousand words a day.
‐‐ Lisa See

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.
‐‐ Regina Spektor

I write a world where everyone is partly right.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.
‐‐ Matthew Reilly

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.
‐‐ Jason Molina

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.
‐‐ Cecelia Ahern

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.
‐‐ Amy Grant

I write about families. That is who we are.
‐‐ Per Petterson

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
‐‐ Eric Brown

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
‐‐ Jackie Evancho

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.
‐‐ Jim Bakker

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.
‐‐ Tom Perrotta

I write about living, not dying.
‐‐ John Diamond

I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love with music. It's weird. I'm at a crossroads because I want to be in love.
‐‐ Charlie Puth

I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
‐‐ Ian Caldwell

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
‐‐ Brian McKnight

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
‐‐ Aaron Carter

I write about my life.
‐‐ George Michael

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
‐‐ Reeve Carney

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.
‐‐ Mo Yan

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
‐‐ Samuel Beckett

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.
‐‐ Ben Mezrich

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.
‐‐ Jason Robert Brown

I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.
‐‐ David A. Adler

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.
‐‐ Lee Smith

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.
‐‐ Matthew Quick

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.
‐‐ James Bay

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.
‐‐ Doris Kearns Goodwin

I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
‐‐ Jackie Collins

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker

I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.
‐‐ Kesha

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
‐‐ Jackie Collins

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.
‐‐ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.
‐‐ Kristin Armstrong

I write about the things I feel strongly about.
‐‐ Dido Armstrong

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
‐‐ Karen Kingsbury

I write about things and put things into my albums that I don't talk to people about. I don't hold back or sugarcoat anything.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue.
‐‐ Brad Thor

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
‐‐ Caroline Lawrence

I write about true-life type things.
‐‐ Karen Kingsbury