Always Quote by Simon Beaufoy

I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a…

— Walter Dean Myers

“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear…

— Gabor Maté

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

— Sue Monk Kidd

Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and…

— Bradford Cox

“write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda”

— Ernest Hemingway

I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

— Rupi Kaur

“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was curious to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

— Ashwin Sanghi

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I learned a long time ago that if I really wanted to bring my ideas into experience, I needed to write down my intentions.…

— Mary Manin Morrissey

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter