To write about a place, you have to live there. Jonathan Ames liveplacewrite Change image and share on social
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting. Michael Ondaatje limitwrite Change image and share on social
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you. Rita Dove dealmatterreason Change image and share on social
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. Erich Auerbach concessiondifficultforce Change image and share on social
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book. Neel Mukherjee bookboreboredom share on social
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. Anthony Burgess artdisinterestedrenunciation Change image and share on social
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. Gertrude Stein write Change image and share on social
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald collectconceivedatum Change image and share on social
To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records. Chino Moreno chorediamondeye Change image and share on social
