Write because you love it and not because it is something…

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

— Paulo Coelho

“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write and write about love-otherwise, my soul won't survive.”

— Paulo Coelho's

“I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.”

— Harley King

It's interesting when you write something for somebody else, and then you're like, 'Oh man, I just laid my whole trip on them, and…

— LP

And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the…

— David Cross

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm very selective about what I write about, and whom I write about, and how much I write about somebody.

— Cathy Horyn

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

— The D.O.C

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

— Aaron Sorkin

I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

— Maurice Sendak

If you write for somebody that you know, then your job is so much easier.

— Jessica St. Clair

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

— Annette Bening

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

— David Byrne

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big,…

— Larry Winget

I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.

— Dizzee Rascal