All Quotes

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.
‐‐ Duane Michals

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.
‐‐ Leslie Marmon Silko

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'
‐‐ Lee Child

I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.
‐‐ Diane Mott Davidson

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.
‐‐ Gene Hackman

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
‐‐ Margaret Forster

I write in the mornings. During my down time.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day.
‐‐ John Searles

I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.
‐‐ Jane Green

I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.
‐‐ Louis Sachar

I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.
‐‐ Patrick Modiano

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

I write in the studio.
‐‐ Macy Gray

I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad jumbled books and papers whose stratigraphy is a challenge. Summers in Bozeman, Montana, I write in a spare space, surrounded by interesting rocks and fossils instead of books, on an old oak table with nothing but my laptop.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I write instead of going to the shrink!
‐‐ Lukas Forchhammer

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
‐‐ Kathy Acker

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.
‐‐ Judy Collins

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.
‐‐ Andrae Crouch

I write larger than life. It's what I do.
‐‐ James Patterson

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
‐‐ Jayne Anne Phillips

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
‐‐ Blake Bailey

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.
‐‐ Tawni O'Dell

I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: 'If fate happens to toss you a lightbulb, use it to light the path of others, for they will use theirs to light the path of you. With your light together with mine, it's two times as bright and twice as strong.'
‐‐ Matthew Underwood

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
‐‐ Peter Straub

I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.
‐‐ Donald Hall

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.
‐‐ Daniel Handler

I write love songs!
‐‐ Kris Allen

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
‐‐ Erica Jong

I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective.
‐‐ Charles Stross

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan

I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. I can accompany myself 'cause most songs are, like, four chords.
‐‐ Kehlani

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.
‐‐ Tony Oller

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.
‐‐ Dermot Healy

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

I write music every day.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I write music. I'm in a band.
‐‐ Jamie Campbell Bower

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
‐‐ Alex O'Loughlin

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
‐‐ Chuck Mangione

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
‐‐ Eric Whitacre

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.
‐‐ Jerome Kern

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
‐‐ Carter Burwell