I write because I want to have more than one life.

“What do you want? Let’s just start with the basics. Write down anything that you want in your life. These can be big or…

— Richard Brodie

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

— Anne Tyler

“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

— Gordon Ramsay

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't want to always be the one to start the conversation. I want you to write me first. I want you to want…

— Leslie

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent…

— Ray Bradbury

I think it's possible for anybody to write what they want to write - superheroes, historical, period drama, 'Game Of Thrones' - it's just…

— Lenny Henry

“I wanted to write “I Want” because wanting is one of the things I want most in life.”

— Jarod Kintz

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

— Bell Hooks

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

— Bahya ibn Paquda

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

— Terry Pratchett

“Write down what you want your destiny to be, and in so doing you will live your dreams.”

— Stephen Richards