I write Quotes · Page 18

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

— Kathy Acker

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

— Mark Waid

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back…

— Donald McKay

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I write very slowly.

— Carla Bley

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

— Joshua Bell

From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of…

— Andrea Hirata

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really…

— Martin Gore

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very…

— Todd Rundgren

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They…

— Art Alexakis

I write what I'm interested in.

— Lisa See

I write about my life.

— George Michael

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read,…

— Ann Hood

I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I…

— James Altucher

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is…

— Siegfried Lenz

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the…

— Colm Feore

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes…

— Octavia E. Butler

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation.…

— Gillian Cross

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

— Boyle Roche

When I write songs, I write from a lot of perspectives.

— Goldlink

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

— Jonathan Evison

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with…

— Zadie Smith

I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.

— Dennis Crowley

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan