Committee Quote by John Grisham

I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing. It became,…

— John Grisham

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write…

— Barack Obama

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to…

— Fiona Apple

I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama…

— John Grisham

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in…

— Matthew Desmond

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about…

— Patty Hearst

I was pregnant with my youngest child at the time, writing about mass death while I'm growing this precious little life inside me. Here…

— Julia Scheeres

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

— Kevin J. Anderson

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I wish I had more time to write.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

— Nora Roberts

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

— William Goldman