All Quotes

I write based on how I feel.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.
‐‐ Scott Turow

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.
‐‐ Gregory Maguire

I write because I can't imagine not writing.
‐‐ Richard Price

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.
‐‐ Israel Horovitz

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.
‐‐ Gillian Cross

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.
‐‐ Amy Tan

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.
‐‐ Julia Glass

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
‐‐ Richard Price

I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault.
‐‐ Jamey Johnson

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
‐‐ David Guterson

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
‐‐ Norton Juster

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good.
‐‐ David Lagercrantz

I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
‐‐ Farley Mowat

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
‐‐ Andrew Motion

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.
‐‐ Catherine Jinks

I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
‐‐ Ellen Hopkins

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I write books that will make 10 or 12 hours disappear, and hopefully they'll resonate with you for a few days, where you'll remember the characters and the story. That suits me fine; I am happy with that.
‐‐ Michael Robotham

I write books to find out about things.
‐‐ Rebecca West

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
‐‐ David A. Adler

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.
‐‐ Bruce Bennett

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
‐‐ Ilana Glazer

I write, but I also act.
‐‐ Eric Bogosian

I write by hand and then transfer the text onto the computer. I like the process of actually having a pen in my hand. Things flow more easily for me that way.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

I write by myself and then deliver the song. Everybody knows, 'Leave Ester alone when she's in her zone.' Give me a studio and the tracks, and I'll call you when the doctor is done.
‐‐ Ester Dean

I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
‐‐ Amy Lee

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
‐‐ Abraham Verghese

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
‐‐ Iris Johansen

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.
‐‐ Robert Crais

I write characters. Some of those characters are women.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

I write constantly about everything.
‐‐ Tom Sturridge

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
‐‐ Alex Flinn

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.
‐‐ Perry Farrell

I write crime novels and thrillers - I'm a big fan of cops. You can never forget that they run towards what everyone else runs away from.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.
‐‐ James Salter

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
‐‐ Alan Dean Foster

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
‐‐ Andrew Greeley