Down Quote by Lorrie Moore

I'm not going to just sit there and tell sad stories. You've got to do it in a way that engages people and that's…

— Bridget Everett

I rarely sit down to write something. I usually have an experience and relate it to somebody and go, 'There I connected some dots,'…

— Greg Behrendt

The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I…

— Chris Rock

I don't necessarily sit down like, 'I need to write jokes.' I try to live a lot of life so that things happen to…

— Janelle James

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

— Norma McCorvey

I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to do.

— Pauline Chalamet

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing,…

— William Zinsser

It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy,…

— Kathleen Hanna

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I…

— Lenny Kravitz

I always write a story in one sitting.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

— Sarah Dessen