Asks Quote by Maria Semple

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

— Kesha

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking…

— Doris Lessing

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

— Meg Wolitzer

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long…

— Charles de Lint

I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write…

— Curtis Jackson

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

— Joan Didion

I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you…

— Elmore Leonard

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them…

— Mitch Albom

It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the stuff that…

— Jennifer Egan

I don't write because I think I have anything particularly interesting to say. I write because I love writing more than any other work…

— Stefan Merrill Block

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love…

— Tanith Lee