I could write more, but that is all that matters.

I'm not trying to get across some sort of message or statement. I'm just literally trying to write the best songs I can write.…

— Dean Lewis

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

— Rick Riordan

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for…

— Virginia Woolf

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not…

— Amy Grant

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the…

— Anne Rice

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.

— Daniel Lyons

I think it's more honest, true to life, to write about serious matters. And also not to do something that's gentle. I like to…

— Guy Jenkin

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people…

— Cameron Crowe

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for…

— Virginia Woolf

“We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words anymore, but…

— Bonnie Friedman

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter…

— Rick Riordan

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

— Jonathan Safran Foer