I would imagine that most of my writing is done…

You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart.

— Lights

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

— Keanu Reeves

Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and…

— Gertrude Atherton

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind…

— David Henrie

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

— Tana French

Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD.

— Merlin Mann

...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental…

— Ted Hughes

“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”

— Katherine Mansfield

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

— Jacqueline Woodson

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a…

— Jennifer Egan

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

— Richard Price

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet…

— Michel Foucault

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

— Michael Lewis

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion