Feelings Quote by Tama Janowitz

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

— S. E. Hinton

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't…

— Raymond Chandler

I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too…

— Lori Foster

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen…

— Harold Pinter

I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.

— Alison Sudol

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that…

— James Altucher

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract…

— Hannah Kent

The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try…

— Katie Kitamura

I try to write for women, but I suck at it. I really do.

— Lexi Alexander

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing.…

— Marion Cotillard