I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I…

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

— Helene Hanff

Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?

— Andy Grammer

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

“Create the new world that we all wish to see.”

— Ari Gunzburg

To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures…

— Bill Gates

But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir, of course,…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.”

— Dennis R. Miller

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

— Stephen Sondheim

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then…

— Tim Minchin

When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last…

— Glenn Close

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

— Adam Duritz

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a…

— Julie Andrews

I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump Grind,' then turning around and doing…

— R. Kelly

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I…

— Lenny Kravitz

I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is…

— Brian Fallon