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When I sit down I write very fast ... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well. — Michael Morpurgo

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar! — Megan Lee

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else. — Aaron Sorkin

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that. — Lucinda Williams

I write every day ... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good. — Janet Fitch

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. — Jon Anderson

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people. — Julian Barnes

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst

You're everything I write about in my songs, but can never have. — Abbi Glines

Extras, in case you want to send some." "Irma," M.J. said. "Who am I going to write a postcard to? You're the — Stephanie Kallos

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight. — Maureen Dowd

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it. — Anita Shreve

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it. — Paul Dano

I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. — E.L. Doctorow

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write. — James Salter

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex. — Robert Ben Garant

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them. — Jeffery Deaver

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss. — Dave Mustaine

But now that I'm scrubbing
toilets on my hands & knees,
with four degrees,
I realize that one escape route
leads to another — Phil Volatile

I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town. — Sammy Cahn

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized. — Evangeline Lilly

I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic. — Larry Winget

Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again! — Delano Johnson

I don't write music for sissy ears. — Charles Ives

Palate properly whetted, I spelunked for her clitoris, tasting Bourgogne Rouge and Maya's body. — Rex Pickett

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Maybe that's why I write romance. I'm a dreamer at heart. If I can't have it in real life, I'll live it on paper instead. — Nicola Haken

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write. — Karen Thompson Walker

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about. — Hubert Selby Jr.

One day, I'd like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long. — Seth Godin

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. — Suzi Quatro

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation. — Jane Haddam

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs. — Albert Hammond Jr.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own. — Dito Montiel

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. — Neil Gaiman

I write only to bid you Farewell. The spell is removed; I see you as you are. — Jane Austen

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work. — Gail Simone

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write. — Richard Flanagan

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. — Barry Eisler

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. — Bryan Adams

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads. — Sandra Cisneros

Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing. — Tupac Shakur

I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write. — Douglas Coupland

I was born to travel and write verse. — Theophile Gautier

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me. — Catherine Deneuve

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe. — Paul McCartney

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction. — Bob Shaw

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day. — Sean Lennon

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs. — Stephen Sondheim

I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record. — Gloria Emerson

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to. — Lemon Andersen

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion. — Randall Robinson

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes. — Daron Malakian

I did not want to write just another business book. — Peter Thiel

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another. — Timothy Findley

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? — Ted Nelson

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff. — Robert Hunter

I write out of revenge. — William Goldman

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me. — Louis L'Amour

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.' — Kate Atkinson

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt. — Bruce Willis

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation. — Jhumpa Lahiri

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions. — Maria Semple

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton. — Jamie Lynn Spears

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. — Sam Wyly

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it. — Gemma Arterton

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films. — Juicy J

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up — Ben Parr

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in. — Tupac Shakur

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write. — Amy Winehouse

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

All those stories need different endings - which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story. — Laura Fraser

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity. — Emma Watson

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours. — Isabel Allende

I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there. — Arthur Bradford

I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house. — Sara Shepard

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

I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him. — Graham Moore

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

Get your little sticky note pad and get a new note, Kace. Write this on it. I'm coming, Kace. I'm coming for your heart, — Scott Hildreth

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. — Ellen Glasgow

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage. — Kathleen Madigan

I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about. — Paris Hilton

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray and have great friends. — Matt Sorum

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony

I am a Pen & I am born to Write. — Himanshu Chhabra

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career. — Sheryl Crow

I write out of instinct. — Jerome Weidman

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday. — Gary David Goldberg

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes. — Ian Somerhalder

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. — Michael Gruber

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really
I just want to. — John Ashbery

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story. — Rob Walton

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books. — Meg Rosoff