Michael Cunningham quote: "I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died."

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.
THOMAS KELLER

I had always wanted to write about Ohio State.
ADRIENNE KENNEDY

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
ERNEST GAINES

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wante...
JOAN D. VINGE

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the...
ELIE WIESEL

I wanted to write about humanity, inhumanity and the cost of warfare.... And what we wanted to do on...
ERIC HANEY

I felt like I had to do it. We really wanted this bad and the girls who were with us last year reall...
LAUREN WITHERSPOON

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I&#...
KATE GRENVILLE

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
KATE ADIE

I grow more and more intrigued by this as I write: how words, even the most carefully chosen, can me...
DAWN HAMMILL

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
BRIE LARSON

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for a...
DAVID DUCHOVNY

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to writ...
PATTI SMITH

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t...
JERRY SPINELLI

I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like...
DAN SAVAGE

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood...
LOU REED

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
ABBY ELLIOTT

The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like t...
ANGELA CARTER

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class...
EUGENE IONESCO

For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ...
ZARA LARSSON

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fict...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I...
CHINUA ACHEBE

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
PETER JENNINGS

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the...
TROYE SIVAN

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity ...
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG

I've been around Penn State my entire life, so I have a good perspective for its history. Forty year...
JAY PATERNO

My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy i...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about...
GREGG EASTERBROOK

I let people write about whatever it is they wanted to remember about McDonald. It had to be their s...
ALICE LIENARD THOMASSY

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with auth...
GAIL SIMMONS

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w...
KAZUO ISHIGURO

When people write about what college football is all about they should write about Michael Robinson....
JAY PATERNO

What I like about vampires is what I like about everything I want to write about, the depths and hei...
TANITH LEE

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when ...
SHAMEIK MOORE

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k...
JACKIE COLLINS

TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with...
ROSEANNE BARR

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the ...
TODD GITLIN

After I got sick and beat it I decided I was going to write because that is what I really wanted to ...
DON SILVER

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I...
DAVID FRIEDMAN

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
STEVE BUSCEMI

To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about thi...
CHERRELLE

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
PATRICIA HAMPL

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.
J. K. ROWLING

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
O. J. SIMPSON

I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory ...
STURGILL SIMPSON

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading p...
JOHN BERGER

I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons l...
SHANE JONES

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
SARAH JESSICA PARKER

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-li...
ART ALEXAKIS

From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses,...
REBECCA STEAD

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Be...
JULIA CAMERON

if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a ten...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to wr...
SALMAN RUSHDIE

They're about situations I've gone through being in a relationship. You won't hear me write a song a...
KEITH SWEAT

I write about true-life type things.
KAREN KINGSBURY

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom ...
JENNA BUSH

It was about things he had always wanted to write about, but was never quite able to.
BRUCE JACKSON

I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think wri...
LEE SMITH

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it ne...
CHANG-RAE LEE

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly abo...
ANNE LAMOTT

Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE

I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which ...
DARRELL HAMMOND

Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things,...
ELLEN ULLMAN

I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that r...
VAL MCDERMID

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to ...
LARRY BIRD

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all ha...
DOLLY PARTON

And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true.

Wh...
DAVID LEVITHAN

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you...
JACKIE COLLINS

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write ab...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid...
PATRICK O'BRIAN

I couldn't finish the sandwich, and I wanted to do something about it. We all felt bad about not eat...
ANDY NEARY

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.
WILLIAM COBBETT

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

To write is to reveal oneself.
When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect ...
SANHITA BARUAH

I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to d...
DARREN SHAN

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politic...
TIM CAHILL

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people aro...
JAMES BAY

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childh...
TEA OBREHT

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight ...
DREW BARRYMORE

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs...
MICK RALPHS

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what...
ADELE

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
ANDREA BARRETT

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
NAIMA ADEDAPO

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth;...
EVE ARNOLD

I wanted to write.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I wanted to be able to call bullshit on some of these guys. OK, Bill O'Reilly, OK Al Franken: 'What ...
PAUL RIECKHOFF

I just kinda went into the season to have fun and not have any regrets. That's basically it. I wasn'...
BRADY BAJEMA

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wante...
NICOLE KRAUSS

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decid...
DAVID BERGEN

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls....
ALICE MUNRO

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and ...
CARRIE ANN INABA

I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.

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Michael Cunningham

I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.

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