If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like…

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

— Donovan

My house is going - kids running out, my wife is running in and out - but I like to sit down and have…

— Chris Bosh

I know what it's like to sit on the bench.

— Joshua Kimmich

I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.

— Jed Mercurio

If there is something that I should know how to do but don't, it bugs me. I feel like I have to sit down…

— Terence Tao

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

— Norma McCorvey

When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"

— Wayne Dyer

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I…

— George Orwell

My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

— Karen Robards

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea.…

— Ruth Ozeki

Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and…

— Liane Moriarty

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

— Lorrie Moore

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

— Luke Combs

You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something…

— John Zorn

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry