I write Quotes · Page 8

When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.

— Sia

Sometimes I write from the end of the verse to the beginning of the verse.

— Rakim

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

— Leonard Cohen

Anytime I have to write down what I do, I write yoga instructor. That's what I do. My thing is yoga.

— Hilaria Baldwin

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

— Libba Bray

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

— Marian Keyes

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.

— August Wilson

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I…

— Khaled Hosseini

When I get a new script, I write a record of how many costume and make-up changes I have. I cross-check them…

— Gina Bellman

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my…

— Lana Del Rey

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the…

— Sarah Addison Allen

When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,'…

— Oscar Hijuelos

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm…

— R. L. Stine

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of…

— John Scofield

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds…

— Octavia E. Butler

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so…

— Wole Soyinka

It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's…

— Ben Schwartz

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the…

— Jason Isbell

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much…

— Patricia MacLachlan

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,…

— Denis Leary

Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But…

— Mary Roach

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague,…

— Mary Roach

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

— Christine Feehan

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

— Suzanne Collins

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

— Dolly Parton

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on…

— Terry Pratchett

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

— James Toback

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

— Apolo Ohno

I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.

— Andrew Dominik

One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

— Edmund White

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

— Edward P. Jones

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

— Christopher McQuarrie

I write a lot of shows with outcasts in the lead. Think of Elphaba.

— Stephen Schwartz

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

— Lykke Li

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

— Jostein Gaarder