Everyone has a book within them. Everyone has to write it…

“ Just So You Know You fall in love with every book you touch. You never break the spine or tear the pages. That…

— Sarah Addison Allen

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

— Aubrey Plaza

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

— Bruce Feiler

Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

— Edward Albee

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

— Julia Alvarez

I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white,…

— James Blunt

When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record.

— Julien Baker

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

— Meg Wolitzer

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

— Lorene Scafaria

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms…

— Gertrude Stein

“You will write … if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in…

— Amit Goswami

I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical issue or…

— Lynne Tillman

“You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.”

— John Rogers