All Quotes

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
‐‐ Christine Feehan

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.
‐‐ Lisa Unger

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.
‐‐ Stephan Pastis

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders

I write for young girls of color, for girls who don't even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
‐‐ Ntozake Shange

I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
‐‐ Nancy Garden

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
‐‐ Dirk Benedict

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.
‐‐ Pink

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

I write from my stomach.
‐‐ Paul Thomas Anderson

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
‐‐ Dirk Benedict

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.
‐‐ Kim Carnes

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
‐‐ Nick Cave

I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
‐‐ Victoria Aveyard

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.
‐‐ Carole King

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
‐‐ Cecelia Ahern

I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a seminar where we discuss film or theater and do improvisations.
‐‐ Troy Donahue

I write, I write, I always write.
‐‐ Tom Araya

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
‐‐ Kent Haruf

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
‐‐ Zack Snyder

I write in a rush of memory.
‐‐ Brent Runyon

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
‐‐ Etgar Keret

I write in a very melodic way, so that will never leave. I think my records will always tend to be approachable.
‐‐ Tom DeLonge

I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.
‐‐ Charles McCarry

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.
‐‐ Teena Marie

I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

I write in American slang.
‐‐ Norman Spinrad

I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.
‐‐ Dean Bakopoulos

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.
‐‐ Phil Klay

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
‐‐ Daniel Alarcon

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.
‐‐ Violante Placido

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.
‐‐ John Crowley

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
‐‐ Rachael Ray

I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
‐‐ James Salter

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni