Down Quote by James Salter

I always write the pieces I want to write.

— Harrison Birtwistle

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of…

— Bill Viola

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

— James Mercer

I just write what I want to write.

— Kathleen Hanna

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and…

— Joan Didion

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall…

— Candace Bushnell

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

— Anne Rice

I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

— Kevin Powers

“Outlines can help, but not if you begin with them. If you begin, instead, by writing down everything, by spewing out your ideas as…

— Howard S. Becker

I write what I would like to read.

— Kathleen Norris

I write what I want to write.

— Jorja Smith

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion