You want what you write to be essential.

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in…

— Marcel Proust

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in…

— Marcel Proust

Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer puisqu'il existe…

— Marcel Proust

“I am a Christian and of course what I write will be from that essential viewpoint.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life.…

— James W. Pennebaker

“What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words,…

— Lori Lesko

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

— Kelly Marie Tran

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

— Samuel Beckett

I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'

— Teri Garr

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

— Serj Tankian

Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a…

— Maggie Stiefvater

When you want to write well, wake up at 5 A.M.

— Susannah Cahalan

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

— Matt Berninger

You make me want to write bad poetry.

— Anonymous