I Write Quotes

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.
- Edward Abbey

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
- Lynn Abbey

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
- Kathy Acker

I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths - and a degree in English. I worried a lot about girls and what had happened to my bike. Later I became I writer and worked on a lot of things that were almost incredibly successful but in fact just failed to see the light of day. Other writers will know what I mean.
- Douglas Adams

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself."
"Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.
- Douglas Adams

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'
- Adele

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'
- Lee Child

Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn't?
- Nema Al Araby

I write to find out what I'm talking about.
- Edward Albee

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
- Mitch Albom

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
- Mitch Albom

That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
- Paulo Coelho

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
- Paulo Coelho

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!
- Jodi Picoult

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
- Jodi Picoult

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.
- Jodi Picoult

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
- Jodi Picoult

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.
- Jodi Picoult

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.
- Jodi Picoult

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
- Elizabeth Gilbert

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
- Ernest Hemingway

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
- Ernest Hemingway

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
- Ernest Hemingway

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
- Gary Allan

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving..
- Isabel Allende

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.
- Isabel Allende

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
- Isabel Allende

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
- Chris Van Allsburg

I write from my stomach.
- Paul Thomas Anderson

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
- Van Morrison

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, 'Uh oh, they're going to find out now. I've run a game on everybody and they're going to find me out.
- Maya Angelou

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.
- Maya Angelou

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.
- Judd Apatow

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
- Fiona Apple

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
- Fiona Apple

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
- Fiona Apple

I write, I write, I always write.
- Tom Araya

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.
- Tom Araya

I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.
- Ayi Kwei Armah

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
- Billie Joe Armstrong

I write about the things I feel strongly about.
- Dido Armstrong

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
- Andrea Arnold

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
- John Ashbery

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
- Isaac Asimov

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
- Margaret Atwood

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.
- W H Auden

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
- Jean M Auel

I have said before, and shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!
- Steve Maraboli

So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a
word, and each word is a sound in my head, and each time I write another
word, I hear the sound of my own voice, even though my lips are silent.
- Paul Auster

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
- Bill Ayers

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
- Sebastian Bach

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.
- Rita Rudner

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.
- Kage Baker

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.
- Jim Bakker

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
- Leslie Banks

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
- Howard Barker

What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat)
I write romance novels. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
- John Barton

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.
- Christian Bauman

I write emotional music.
- Les Baxter

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
- Ann Beattie

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
- Ann Beattie

As I write down my thought it sometimes escapes me, but that reminds me of my weakness, which I am always forgetting, and teaches me as much as my forgotten thought, for I care only about knowing that I am nothing.
- Blaise Pascal

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
- Samuel Beckett

I write storys to entertain not to be the best
- Lemony Snicket

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
- John Steinbeck

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.
- Dirk Benedict

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
- Dirk Benedict

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
- Alan Bennett

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.
- Bruce Bennett

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.
- Chester Bennington

Well when I write my book, and tell the tale
Of my adventures all these little stars
That shake out of my cloak I must save those
To use for asterisks..
- Cyrano De Bergerac

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
- Ingmar Bergman

I'm certified as an instructor and I do teach courses at a cram school, but I'm not exactly a teacher. I write fiction, but I've never been published, so I'm not a writer yet, either." "You're nothing." Tengo nodded. "Exactly. For the moment, I'm nothing.
- Haruki Murakami

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
- Haruki Murakami

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
- Haruki Murakami

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
- Haruki Murakami

When hypocrites force me to shut my mouth, I write.
But if there's no stationaries at all, I'll write on ground.
- Toba Beta

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
- Nuno Bettencourt

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
- Robert Kiyosaki

I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
- Angeline M Bishop

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
- Angeline M Bishop

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
- Bjork

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
- Otis Blackwell

I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don't really care.
- Briana Blair

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
- Alexis Bledel

I write very slowly.
- Carla Bley

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
- Eric Bogosian

I write, but I also act.
- Eric Bogosian

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
- Eric Bogosian

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
- Edward Bond

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
- Bono

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
- Daniel J Boorstin

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
- Ray Bradbury

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.
- David Bowie

If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poison, and come to "Cyanide," I am going to put under "Uses" the phrase "Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie.
- Alan Bradley

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
- Carl Sandburg

The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
- Zach Braff

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
- Ann Brashares

For me, if I have writer's block it means I know that what I am writing is not working quite right and I need to go back and fix what is not right. And once I do that I can write onward. Sometimes writer's block is just I'm in a funk that day and my writing just isn't working. In that case I write anyway and then throw it away. You can always write. Writer's block is 'I can't write because what I'm writing is crap.
- Brandon Sanderson

I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
- Brandon Sanderson

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.
- Madeleine L Engle

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
- Berkeley Breathed

Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth.
- Kevin James Breaux

As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the 'eternal verities' on which literature graduates base their doctoral dissertations. Literature departments were uncomfortable with that. But things change.
- David Brin

Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left..
- Vera Brittain

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.
- Anita Brookner

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
- Eric Brown

When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too? These letters are part of us now, part of our history, a reminder forever that we made it through this time. Thank you for helping me survive this year, but more than that, thank you in advance for all the years to come.
- Nicholas Sparks

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
- Nicholas Sparks

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
- Jackson Browne

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Seth: I write of love in my novels, write of it well, if my critics and fans are to be believed, but in all of my years at that typewriter, I never found the combination of words that would convey how I felt about you. You were my everything.
- Lissa Bryan

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
- Anne Tyler

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I'm joining the circus. Although I'm happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
- Anne Tyler

I write because I want to have more than one life.
- Anne Tyler

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.
- Michael Buble

I do not know what I think until I write it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
- Harold Budd

I write my programs primarily for myself.
- Bill Budge

Christmas poem to a man in jail
hello Bill Abbott:
I appreciate your passing around my books in
jail there, my poems and stories.
if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with
my books, fine.
but literature, you know, is difficult for the
average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too);
I don't like most poetry, for example,
so I write mine the way I like to read it.
- Charles Bukowski

Hey baby, when I write, I'm the hero of my shit.
- Charles Bukowski

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
- Charles Bukowski

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master, and nobody had noticed. Still, i'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When i pass people in the hall at work, I get toally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.
- Chuck Palahniuk

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
- Chuck Palahniuk

I never listen to music when I write.
- Augusten Burroughs

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
- Augusten Burroughs

(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I'm writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I'm an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.
- Augusten Burroughs

I write to escape; to escape poverty.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
- Carter Burwell

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
- Candace Bushnell

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
- Octavia Butler

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
- A S Byatt

Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister.
- Emily Giffin

But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards
Of fame or profit when the world grows weary.
I ask in turn why do you play at cards?
Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary.
It occupies me to turn back regards
On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery,
And what I write I cast upon the stream
To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
- George Byron

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
- James M Cain

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.
- Patrick Califia Rice

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.
- Alex Campbell

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
- Suzanne Collins

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
- Robert Caro

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
- Jonathan Carroll

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.
- Jonathan Lethem

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
- Aaron Carter

I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?
- Angela Carter

The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?
- Angela Carter

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
- Raymond Chandler

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.
- Raymond Chandler

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
- Neko Case

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
- Nick Cave

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
- Nick Cave

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
- Brian Celio

I write novels and other things.
- Jack L Chalker

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
- Iris Chang

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
- Leslie Charteris

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
- Stephen King

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
- Stephen King

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.
- Stephen King

I write to find out what I think.
- Stephen King

I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
- Stephen King

I write to make sense of my life.
-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
- John Cheever

there are things in life which one can confide
in one person only, whom one trusts. It is because
of this that I write to my mother without the knowl-
edge of the others, for whom my secrets are quite
uninteresting, or, rather,. unnecessary.
- Anton Chekhov

I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy.
- A A Cheshire

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
- Nadine Gordimer

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.
- Kelly Clarkson

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
- Kelly Clarkson

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
- John Cleese

don't write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.
- Lucille Clifton

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
- Jean Cocteau

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
- J M Coetzee

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
- Leonard Cohen

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
- Terry Pratchett

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
- Jackie Collins

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
- Jackie Collins

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
- Jackie Collins

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.
- Judy Collins

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.
- Jessi Colter

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
- Charles Caleb Colton

It's cool when fashion recycles itself, it's not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.
- Cameron Conaway

My words never last long. I have to destroy them before anyone sees them. But. I remember them all. For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones. And when I see Ky again, which I know will happen, I will whisper the words I have written in his ear, against his lips. and they will change from ash and nothing into flesh and blood.
- Ally Condie

Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.
- Ally Condie

For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right one.
- Ally Condie

The characters I write about are very internal.
- Michael Connelly

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
- Michael Connelly

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
- Pat Conroy

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion!
I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion.
- Wendy Cope

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
- Elvis Costello

I write to express myself, I write to be a voice for those who can not speak I write to inspire change in positive ways I write in hope to make a difference After I have giving up the ghost I would have written to leave my foot prints behind
- O Crisstopher

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.
- Sheryl Crow

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
- Astrid Artistikem Cruz

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
- Macaulay Culkin

I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen. By sheer force of will and some clever word placement, I can arrange all of these little symbols together to invoke emotions and ideas at a whim out of whosoever allows me to cast my spell. It does not take a man and a woman to create. It just takes a writer.
- Jonathan Culver

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
- Virginia Woolf

When I write, I bring joy in my readers face
In my face, peace and complete happiness
But hardly I give any such reflection
During those times, I am in pain
A Sick person who is insane, mad and dead
- Santosh Kalwar

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.
- John Mellencamp

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
- Evan Dando

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
- Evan Dando

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
- Evan Dando

Where can I write my latest account of the body's incarnation?
It's the end of what was bound to end! Where is that which ends?
Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
- Mahmoud Darwish

We are all, I realise, even as I write this, merely moving closer to our deaths. At the end of this sentence I am closer to mine than I was at the beginning. It's relentless. It's a savage thing. And yet for a long time I've carried with me a sense of life opening out. Evidently it's some kind of protective illusion.
- Luke Davies