I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to…

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted…

— Martin Donovan

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

— Danielle Steel

“He wrote how he "needed to be by himself, so he could miss her, to get some perspective”

— Sylvie Simmons

“Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

— Danielle Steel

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

— Nick Symmonds

My grandmother passed away before I could get to know her. She had an interest in films and writing. She wrote two novels under…

— Richa Chadha

My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it…

— Ace Young

The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on…

— Neil Gaiman

I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at…

— Jesmyn Ward

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

— Tony Gilroy

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.

— Heather Sellers

Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was…

— Betty Smith

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn't have the need to be on the stage; I…

— Aurora