I don't think there was a particular book that made me…

“I never thought I wanted to write. Never did I know I can either, until now.”

— C.A. Dimayuga

“It’s not that you expect anything in particular from this particular book. You’re the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything…

— Italo Calvino

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

— Edward P. Jones

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself…

— Nicole Krauss

“i write because if i did not, i would surely go mad. but perhaps being a little bit mad is why i write.”

— Drunk-On-Writing

I would show my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: "That's nice dear". And then she would say:…

— Brian Webb

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that…

— Don DeLillo

“Every Monday, we have to write about what we did at the weekend.” It didn’t appear that her mother understood the agony of this…

— Jane Davis

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want…

— Mary Pipher

I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White House, they're…

— Alyssa Mastromonaco

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

— George Noory

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life.…

— James W. Pennebaker

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

You make me want to write bad poetry.

— Anonymous