I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I…

“I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.”

— Harley King

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

— Aaron Sorkin

It's interesting when you write something for somebody else, and then you're like, 'Oh man, I just laid my whole trip on them, and…

— LP

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you…

— Michael Morpurgo

And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the…

— David Cross

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

— The D.O.C

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

— Maurice Sendak

If you write for somebody that you know, then your job is so much easier.

— Jessica St. Clair

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

— Annette Bening

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble…

— Melodie Ramone

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.”

— Kevan Duke

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

— Ken Burns

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have…

— Jamaica Kincaid