I write Quotes · Page 22

I have to live my books before I write them.

— Dave Ramsey

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

— Jeff Kinney

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

— Adrienne Kennedy

Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I…

— R. A. Salvatore

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in…

— Roxane Gay

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the…

— Stephan Pastis

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

— Jack Draper

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm…

— Tom Stoppard

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak…

— Sevyn Streeter

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

— Mark Lanegan

I'm not a total chump. I write stuff that's reasonably musically complex.

— Tim Minchin

What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

— Iain Sinclair

I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So…

— Carice van Houten

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say…

— Patrick O'Brian

I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did…

— Paul Johnson

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

— Janet Evanovich

If I'm not writing a book, I'm doing promotion for a book. One thing I love to do is go off with…

— Ruth Glick

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat…

— Daniel Handler

I want the last cheque I write to bounce.

— Chuck Feeney

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski…

— Elizabeth George

I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again.…

— Horton Foote

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

— Michael Connelly

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 think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being…

— Lauren Oliver

I write with teenagers in mind.

— Bernard Beckett