I write Quotes · Page 10

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

— Brian K. Vaughan

While I write for myself, I also write for other artists too.

— Jay Sean

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

— Nolan Sotillo

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

— Adrienne Kennedy

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

— Ken Marino

Every time I write 'Stephanie Plum', it's going to be Katherine Heigl's face there.

— Janet Evanovich

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

— Michael Franks

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books,…

— Aaron Swartz

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character.…

— Nikki Grimes

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better…

— Atul Gawande

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express…

— Yael Naim

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the…

— Rick Perlstein

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going…

— Hannah Kent

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down,…

— Wynton Marsalis

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become…

— Kenneth Koch

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The…

— Julia Glass

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know…

— Katy Perry

I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while…

— Matthew Quick

There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone.…

— Daniel Tammet

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother…

— Nicolas Roeg

Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend to display large numbers…

— Gretchen Rubin

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

— Alvin Lee

When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.

— William Lashner

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

— Per Petterson

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

— Jack Kerouac

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

— Franz Wright

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

— Jackie Evancho

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

— Kathy Acker

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

— Andrew Vachss

I'm a Virgo - I write a breakdown of my goals in month-by-month and three-year-long terms.

— Rachel Sennott

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

— Ezra Furman

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

— Nuno Bettencourt

I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

— Diane Mott Davidson

When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.

— Giles Coren

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

— Daniel Alarcon

A lot of music that's my favorite doesn't sound like the music I write.

— Soccer Mommy

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

— Luis Alberto Urrea