I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and…

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no…

— Sheri S. Tepper

What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would…

— Gustave Flaubert

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

— A. S. Byatt

I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get into that.

— Dave East

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

— Daniel Pinkwater

Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

— Richard Price

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to…

— Claire Messud

I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get…

— Randy Newman

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have…

— Troye Sivan

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like…

— John Steinbeck

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it…

— Ruth Ozeki

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

— Wally Lamb