I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about…

I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up.…

— Colin Dexter

When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.

— Mitch Leigh

I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished…

— Jerry Pournelle

I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage anyone.

— Luis J. Rodriguez

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

— Ernest Gaines

I try not to put myself in a box, so I'll write with anybody who wants to. I don't put limitations on my co-writes.

— Thomas Rhett

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what…

— Teddy Pendergrass

The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I got to…

— Donald Glover

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I write for anybody struggling to manage their money.

— Michelle Singletary

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

— Hank Moody

Well, when the Raspberries ended in early 1975 suddenly I didn't have to write to anybody's strengths or weaknesses. I was completely wide open…

— Eric Carmen

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I…

— Jackie Collins

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

— John Byrne