You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So…

Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand And straight reality is always cold

— Van Morrison

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing -…

— V. S. Naipaul

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play

— Edward Bond

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning,…

— Glen Hansard

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

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down…

— Nicholas Sparks

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I…

— Lenny Kravitz

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y…

— Will Self

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

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

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film…

— Ruskin Bond

My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's…

— Michael Ian Black

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

— Lois Lowry

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

— Jonathan Brandis