You don't write because you want to say something, you…

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

— Karl Kraus

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could…

— Andre Gide

“Sometimes they don't write what I mean, they just write what I say.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

My dad and mom used to always say, 'Write your vision down. Write the things that you want to happen.' I would write, 'I…

— Ro James

I let people say and write what they want.

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to…

— Robert Cormier

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.

— Hunter Hayes

“I don't write because I want to write. I do it because I have to. I just wish it was my day job.”

— Stephanie Michel

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

“What do you want? Let’s just start with the basics. Write down anything that you want in your life. These can be big or…

— Richard Brodie

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the…

— Uma Thurman

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at…

— Erma Bombeck

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

— Gordon Ramsay

“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson