All Quotes

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.
‐‐ Terry Tempest Williams

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.
‐‐ Kim Elizabeth

When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.
‐‐ Bill Clegg

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

When I write, I try to capture one of those pivotal moments. If I succeed, I have shifted the reader's view of the world, just a little. The character is not the only one to experience change. That is my job, shifting perceptions, one story at a time. The trouble is, I don't like writing. But I love having written.
‐‐ Ellen Klages

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
‐‐ Philip Yancey

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
‐‐ Padgett Powell

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.
‐‐ Miranda July

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
‐‐ Hannah Kent

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
‐‐ Yael Naim

When I write in Italian - this is just the metaphor that came to me immediately, and I really think this is what it is - I feel like I'm writing with my left hand. Because of that weakness, there is this enormous freedom that comes with it.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
‐‐ Tom DeLonge

When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.
‐‐ Francoise Hardy

When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head.
‐‐ Simone Elkeles

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley

When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
‐‐ Brandon Sanderson

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
‐‐ John Lydon

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.
‐‐ Catherine Ryan Hyde

When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
‐‐ Juan Goytisolo

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.
‐‐ Cecily Strong

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.
‐‐ Antonio Munoz Molina

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
‐‐ Anne Rice

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.
‐‐ Jonathan Stroud

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
‐‐ Sky Ferreira

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'
‐‐ Jill Sobule

When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep or just hanging out in a restaurant or something. Music just comes to me, and I'll start writing from there.
‐‐ Roshon Fegan

When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.
‐‐ El DeBarge

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.
‐‐ Natalia Ginzburg

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.
‐‐ Matt Apuzzo

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.
‐‐ Dave Matthews

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.
‐‐ Paul Auster

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
‐‐ Bruce Dickinson

When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.
‐‐ Jon Katz

When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.
‐‐ Ina Garten