My texts are written like palimpsests. They are written…

“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping;…

— Dexter Palmer

“So, at the turn of the third millennium, you have chosen to base your principles on a collection of contradictory texts – written by…

— Cliff James

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have…

— Zoe Kazan

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

— MO

If four or five days go by, and I haven't written anything, I feel incomplete.

— Ruskin Bond

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

— Antonio Tabucchi

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

— Anonymous

“April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but…

— Haruki Murakami

I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace…

— Rick Moody

I've always written down how I feel.

— Adele

“Well, it all comes to this; there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live…

— L.M. Montgomery

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

— Philip Larkin

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how…

— Paul Auster

That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a…

— Michael Jackson

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

— W. G. Sebald