I don't know if any single book made me want to write…

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for…

— Regina Spektor

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.

— Tracy Morgan

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on…

— Van Morrison

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last…

— Anthony Holden

I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

— Marianne Williamson

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

— Neil Gaiman

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Matt Berninger

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

“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.”

— David McMullen-Sullivan

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

I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White House, they're…

— Alyssa Mastromonaco

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it…

— Chris LeDoux

You make me want to write bad poetry.

— Anonymous