I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set…

— Ray Bradbury

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

— Carlos Mencia

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any…

— Ann Beattie

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

I don't write autobiographically.

— Meg Wolitzer

When you're rich you don't write checks.

— Randy Moss

We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or…

— Rickey Medlocke

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

— Giacomo Casanova

I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I must write about the things of the world with no glazing.” She fought doggedly against the great suction into her own subjectivity: “I…

— Sylvia Plath

“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of…

— Joan Didion

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

— Jeremy Stoppelman

My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different…

— Luanne Rice

Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful…

— Walter Kirn

Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their…

— Mariella Frostrup