You don't have to get into writing – it's not like a pair…

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those…

— Walter Mosley

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

What we've learned is there's no right way to write a song.

— Susan Tedeschi

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

— Pablo Neruda

writing, like living, is lonely work.

— Blanche Willis Howard

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

— Ken Burns

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

“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

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

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

“Writing is like a relationship. When it is good, it is damn good; when it is bad, you contemplate murder.”

— Nevea Lane