Clue Quote by Dustin Lance Black

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

— Sara Sheridan

When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark…

— Amor Towles

I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what…

— Teddy Pendergrass

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I…

— Nicholson Baker

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I…

— Tennessee Williams

When I wrote 'Bully,' I was actually writing it. I was playing the beat and I was trying to write with a pen and…

— Ice Spice

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

— Emeli Sande

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I…

— Eckhart Tolle

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie,…

— M. F. K. Fisher