I was at home waiting for projects. I was on Parenthood…

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write…

— Ian Doescher

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or…

— Paul Muldoon

I'm not trying to get across some sort of message or statement. I'm just literally trying to write the best songs I can write.…

— Dean Lewis

I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like,…

— Dan Deacon

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an…

— R. L. Stine

“I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.”

— Richard Denney

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

— Adam Granduciel

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write…

— Martha Ronk

We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or…

— Rickey Medlocke

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever…

— Linda Cardellini

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to…

— Helen Keller

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.

— David Hare

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find…

— Jeffery Deaver

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

— Margaret Haddix

“whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you.”

— Lauren Oliver