The essays are different because ultimately it's things…

Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get the sense…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've…

— Steven Crowder

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about…

— Chuck Klosterman

As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother…

— Andre Aciman

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

— Adele

“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...”

— Té Russ

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

— Billy Joel

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

— Simone Muench

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

I was very in my own head as a kid. But I liked it there! I was just writing poetry, writing stories, writing plays.…

— Arlo Parks

I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like,…

— Dan Deacon

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

— Harvey Pekar

I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

— Seanan McGuire

“No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes you’re the only thing that my typewriter…

— Moriah Pearson

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

— Dan Deacon