Better Quote by David Liss

I like to have something that makes me want to write. Otherwise, I'm just writing for the sake of it. I feel like if…

— Slowthai

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well…

— Randy Newman

I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a ton of…

— Andy Grammer

I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.

— Taylor Swift

I've been spending a lot of time poring over everything I've written, because I know people are going to hear it.

— Liv Bruce

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should…

— Frank Ocean

Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just…

— James Dickey

Sometimes I worry I've said too much. But it's easier to write about things that are fresh in your mind.

— Lapsley

Every moment I choose to write about is one I have deemed important enough to dwell inside of and share with others. I am…

— Sarah Kay

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really…

— Alice Walker

Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

— Douglas Wood