All Quotes

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.
‐‐ Ellen Potter

I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me.
‐‐ Lukas Forchhammer

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt

I write about what I know.
‐‐ Shelby Lynne

I write about what I'm going through.
‐‐ Kesha

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
‐‐ Julianna Baggott

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
‐‐ Taslima Nasrin

I write all my sermons.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

I write all of my material. It's all me.
‐‐ Ron White

I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place.
‐‐ Sue Miller

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
‐‐ Flo Rida

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
‐‐ Mark Mothersbaugh

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
‐‐ Colin Quinn

I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and if it's good, it's good. I just let it lay where it lays. It doesn't stop from doing another one next year.
‐‐ Toby Keith

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'
‐‐ Toby Keith

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
‐‐ Gary Shteyngart

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
‐‐ Kaki King

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
‐‐ Jackie Evancho

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.
‐‐ Chord Overstreet

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.
‐‐ Heston Blumenthal

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
‐‐ David Friedman

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
‐‐ Franz Wright

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.
‐‐ Laurence Fox

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.
‐‐ Alvin Lee

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
‐‐ Gay Talese

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.
‐‐ Bill Withers

I write - and then I write some more.
‐‐ Frank Delaney

I write and walk and swim and drink.
‐‐ John le Carre

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.
‐‐ Anne Enright

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
‐‐ Jonathan Evison

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
‐‐ Elif Safak

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
‐‐ Robert Harris

I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly onto my computer. It used to be the room where my two sons used to sleep with the dog and the cat, but now it's all mine. It has pictures of art from my books on the walls.
‐‐ Eve Bunting

I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of any specific compositional methods. I'm just seeking sounds.
‐‐ Esperanza Spalding

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.
‐‐ Michael Franks

I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
‐‐ Brooke Burke

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
‐‐ Gyorgy Ligeti