All Quotes

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.
‐‐ Simone Elkeles

I write emotional music.
‐‐ Les Baxter

I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will change your life.
‐‐ Michael Robotham

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
‐‐ Joan Didion

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

I write every day.
‐‐ Graham Russell

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. I do like to write in the morning. I start after breakfast, like 9 o'clock, and I'll write till lunch, about 1. And after lunch, I just have fun.
‐‐ Eve Bunting

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
‐‐ Farley Mowat

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you're going to pay attention to them.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours of surfing the Net or watching videos on YouTube. I park my butt in a chair and write... I learned that writer's block is a myth created by people who don't have, or understand, a writing process.
‐‐ Jonathan Maberry

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.
‐‐ Daniel Handler

I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

I write every night.
‐‐ Jonathan Davis

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.
‐‐ Mike Myers

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss

I write everything out in longhand in one fast go. And then I throw out the first few and start over again. By the end of the first draft, the whole thing's messy and disgusting and horrible, but you really understand the foundational stuff.
‐‐ Lauren Groff

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am not a native. It can be a struggle to make word count sometimes, but I will persevere!
‐‐ Seanan McGuire

I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
‐‐ FKA twigs

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
‐‐ Vikas Swarup

I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones.
‐‐ Sara Sheridan

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.
‐‐ James Toback

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
‐‐ Philip Roth

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela

I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I used to stand on a certain piece of rug if my brothers and husband were watching football and their team got in trouble - but now the luck went out of that rug. If a circle is involved, I try to go clockwise.
‐‐ Louise Erdrich

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
‐‐ Robert B. Parker

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
‐‐ Jerzy Kosinski

I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists.
‐‐ John Darnielle

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
‐‐ Garrison Keillor

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
‐‐ Eric Bogosian

I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
‐‐ Natalie Babbitt

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.
‐‐ Michael Hastings

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
‐‐ Cass McCombs

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
‐‐ August Wilson

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
‐‐ Mac DeMarco

I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.
‐‐ Ron Pope

I write for myself things that I've gone through.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
‐‐ Jack London

I write for 'Self' magazine sometimes.
‐‐ Dylan Lauren

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.
‐‐ Matthew Tobin Anderson