I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write about the complexity and hilarity in the everyday business of being human.” — Kate De Goldi Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people. — Chely Wright Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot more folky, country type stuff. One of the reasons I wanted to write in the first place… — Rag'n'Bone Man Copy Share Image
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
All I've wanted to do is write. In school I just wanted to be a writer but I was afraid to be… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted… — Scarface Copy Share Image
I wanted to write children's books. I felt that the best way to understand how a child thinks in their mind is… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
“But the address, if it ever existed, never was sent, which made me sad, there was so much I wanted to write… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
If you can express something in the simplest way possible, I think there's something noble in that. It's easy to flesh stuff… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about what it's like to be 50 and trying to reinvent yourself - that struggle. There… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
