I write Quotes · Page 2

I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say,…

— Toby Keith

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I write the best book that I can write each time.

— Karen Robards

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

— Chord Overstreet

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I…

— Mika

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick…

— Nneka

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

— Jesmyn Ward

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

— Ruskin Bond

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur…

— Richard Greenberg

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I…

— Jon Scieszka

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I…

— Andrae Crouch

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

— Ne-Yo

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

— Seymour Hersh

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world…

— Jesmyn Ward

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the…

— August Wilson

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand.…

— John Irving

I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.

— Mona Simpson

When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar. I…

— Charlie Worsham

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries.…

— Michael Buble

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether…

— Nouriel Roubini

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm…

— Karen Traviss

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not…

— Adam Rapp