I write Quotes · Page 9

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

I write a song for me and I sing a song for me - no one else.

— Hank Williams III

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

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

— Mattie Stepanek

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

— Teena Marie

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb

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

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is…

— Isabel Allende

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

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with…

— Kaki King

I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The…

— Sara Zarr

I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior…

— Elizabeth Strout

When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even…

— Raymond Carver

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 every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it…

— Eve Bunting

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have…

— Jerry Jeff Walker

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's…

— Roxane Gay

I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the…

— Adam Hicks

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

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best…

— John Pomfret

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

— Maurice Sendak

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.

— Kathryn Lasky

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

— Gerry Beckley

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.

— Paul Haggis

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

— Kristin Armstrong

Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule.

— Ryan North

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

— Chuck Palahniuk

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

— Norman Mailer

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

— Scott Turow

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

— Mika

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

— Kate Morton