Down and Quote by Karl Ove Knausgard

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

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a…

— Tracy Chapman

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

— Mitski

You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

— Mick Jones

I write constantly about everything.

— Tom Sturridge

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

— Roger Ebert

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it,…

— Sylvia Plath

When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to write about…

— Nicole Atkins

I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured…

— Susan Sontag

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

— Tommy Lee