I write everything on a xylophone!

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it…

— Julia Holter

Xylophone is spelled with an X. That's wrong. It should be a Z up front. Next time you spell xylophone, use a Z. If…

— Mitch Hedberg

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 write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a…

— Richard Powers

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier

I write my story in my books, It show that your name filled in my books

— Anonymous

You make me want to write bad poetry.

— Anonymous

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think…

— Jane Siberry

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,…

— John Flansburgh