I write Quotes · Page 19

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

— Ne-Yo

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make…

— Kathryn Lasky

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

— Sally Phillips

What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

— Edward M. Lerner

I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

— Elif Safak

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in…

— Abbas Kiarostami

When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think…

— El DeBarge

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a…

— Britt Daniel

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've…

— Ben Schott

I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in…

— Samuel R. Delany

Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples'…

— Eric S. Raymond

I talk about myself. That's what I am. I'm a blogger. I have always decided that I was going to be an…

— Mena Grabowski Trott

I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also…

— Donna Leon

When I went through the Simpson case, I was a cop. Then I was a good cop. Then I was a bad…

— Mark Fuhrman

I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but…

— Ben Brantley

I throw right-handed, I write right-handed, golf right, everything.

— Jack Draper

I write music when I'm free and for no particular project in mind.

— Serj Tankian

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

— Pink

Sometimes I write for other drag queens.

— Bob the Drag Queen

When I write, I write everything from a rhythm point.

— Phil Rudd

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

— Stanley Tucci

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

— Meg Rosoff

The way I write possibly shouldn't be turned on serious things.

— Giles Coren

Some of the ways I write my raps is from my vocabulary I learned in school.

— Fabolous

I write songs when I'm in the depths of my emotions.

— Olivia Rodrigo

I write music I like to write and that I'm comfortable with.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.'

— Svetlana Alexievich

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

— Trent Reznor

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

— Robert Smith

I write in order to bear witness to life.

— Herta Muller

I write in the garden room, on my terrace at home in Covent Garden.

— David Essex

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

— Rita Dove

My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.

— Karen Robards

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

— Patricia Marx

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

— Lauren Alaina

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

— Willie Nelson

I write folky tunes, like Tom Waits and Bob Dylan.

— Noah Reid

The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos.

— Olga Tokarczuk