I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could…

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. I went to business school because in…

— Dee Rees

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for…

— Kendrick Lamar

“There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the…

— Amélie Nothomb

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your…

— Henry David Thoreau

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and…

— Michael LeBoeuf

“I wanted to write not because I thought writing would bring about change. I simply loved it. Writing, in itself, allowed me to dream…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

— William Cobbett

“Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

— Karl Hyde

If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may…

— Summer Sanders

Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.

— Kendra Wilkinson

“As I write down my thought it sometimes escapes me, but that reminds me of my weakness, which I am always forgetting, and teaches…

— Blaise Pascal

“He remembered the good times with them all, and the quarrels. They always picked the finest places to have the quarrels. And why had…

— Ernest Hemingway

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

— William Cobbett

I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

— Dee Rees