This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.” — Matt Forbeck Copy Share Image
I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad. — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write. — Daniel Adair Copy Share Image
You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself. — Joe Pasternak Copy Share Image
“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you… — Jean-Jaques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Even if, at the moment, you can't sit down and do the gruntwork of stringing verbs and nouns together, you are writing.… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Writing is one of the best therapies that exist. Either on paper, computer, phone or tablet, in any form it is helpful.… — Nico J. Genes Copy Share Image
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is. — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.” — David Diringer Copy Share Image
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.' — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
I don't want to go out hunting for dismal topics to write about. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write. — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
