I write - and then I write some more.

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read…

— Orhan Pamuk

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the…

— Nneka

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I…

— Langhorne Slim

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

— Ken Burns

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or…

— Juan Gabriel

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot…

— Stephen King

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

— Madeleine L'Engle

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.”

— Kevan Duke

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble…

— Melodie Ramone

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back…

— Marvin Hagler

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg