All Quotes

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
‐‐ Bob Seger

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy

I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.
‐‐ Brian Helgeland

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
‐‐ Anthony Doerr

I write romance because I love to read romance.
‐‐ Rachel Gibson

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.
‐‐ Bob Shaw

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.
‐‐ Bruce Vilanch

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman

I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.
‐‐ Lorraine Adams

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
‐‐ Dan Brown

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
‐‐ Carmen Laforet

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
‐‐ Rita Dove

I write short stories. I write every day.
‐‐ Isaiah Mustafa

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.
‐‐ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I write slowly.
‐‐ Yann Martel

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.
‐‐ Philip Schultz

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
‐‐ Erica Jong

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
‐‐ Dan Brown

I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
‐‐ Ann Hood

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
‐‐ Mika

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
‐‐ John Mayall

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.
‐‐ Miranda Cosgrove

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
‐‐ Gabrielle Aplin

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
‐‐ John Frusciante

I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
‐‐ Melissa Etheridge

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
‐‐ Van Morrison

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
‐‐ Mika

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.
‐‐ Halsey

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.
‐‐ James McBride

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.
‐‐ John Darnielle

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
‐‐ Jackie Collins

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
‐‐ Sarah Dessen

I write the books to amuse myself.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.
‐‐ Steven Moffat

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
‐‐ Elizabeth George

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
‐‐ John Irving