I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far…

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

— David Henry Hwang

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement unless I…

— Bryson Tiller

We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it,…

— Catherine Camus

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 always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to…

— Emeli Sande

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted…

— Patti Smith

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any…

— Frank Deford

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…

— Tracy K. Smith

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a…

— Peter Hedges

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

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

Unfortunately, neither of my grandfathers were alive by the time I decided I wanted to write a book. I wish I had asked them…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

— Imre Kertész

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