When I write, I write everything from a rhythm point.

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or…

— Miles Davis

If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.

— Viv Albertine

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric…

— Erin McKeown

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read…

— Orhan Pamuk

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

— Per Petterson

“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.”

— Kevan Duke

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish…

— Robert B. Parker

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or…

— Juan Gabriel

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

— Ken Burns

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble…

— Melodie Ramone

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

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