I write what feels real. I write things that are informed…

“A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.”

— Bryant McGill

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Everything is real but we write the jokes too and improvise them.

— Sal Vulcano

“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.”

— C.B. Huesing

“Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and the part…

— Ally Condie

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me,…

— Martin Gore

“Because I know if I sit down and start to write out how it feels…. it all becomes too real… the pain becomes too…

— Chriselle Ravadilla

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to…

— Jenny Lawson

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak.…

— Nicole Krauss

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you…

— Paul Simon

“Perhaps it is because now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and the part…

— Ally Condie

Sometimes violence in a very real way is much faster and more impactful because it feels real and you're watching it happen and you're…

— Antoine Fuqua

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can…

— Laurell K. Hamilton