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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story w... RAINBOW ROWELL
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. SALMAN RUSHDIE
I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life. JOEL OSTEEN I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of...
ADAM RAPP
Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. ROBERT BYRNE I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
JACK ANTONOFF
I'm trying to practice owning less stuff. ALEXANDRA PAUL
I came to love, I came into my own. THEODORE ROETHKE I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.
EMMA ROBERTS
It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really ... KATHLEEN HANNA For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.
CHERYL JAMES
Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away,... CLAIRE TOMALIN
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write o... ROBERT BYRNE
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write o... ROBERT BYRNE
I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitc... SIMON HELBERG
I'm not a big 'cry on a shoulder' person. I'm very introverted when it comes to my o... KHLOE KARDASHIAN I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
ZOEY DEUTCH
I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi... STEVEN WRIGHT I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years.
DASHA ZHUKOVA I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philo...
PARKER YOUNG
I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influen... CHESTER BROWN
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a p... JACK WHITE
Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff, or material for Motley, I just write to write.... TOMMY LEE I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
KAT EDMONSON What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.
PETE BURNS
I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's g... LEONOR VARELA I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in ...
THOMAS BRODIE-SANGSTER I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passion...
JOSH KEATON I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I...
IAN RANKIN
I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young. FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts ...
BARBARA MERTZ I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly.
MARK CONSUELOS I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career ... KENDALL JENNER I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want ...
ROBERT HUNTER
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own ... TAYLOR SWIFT
I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotligh... CHRIS EVANS While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excit...
HAKAN NESSER I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stu...
PATRICK STUMP I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
ETEL ADNAN I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we'r...
JASON REITMAN
I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or ju... JA RULE What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms in...
JACK BRUCE
I'm my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I l... LILLY SINGH I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with...
GARTH ENNIS I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
ABBY ELLIOTT
Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating de... TIG NOTARO With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good a...
ROBERT KNEPPER I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
EARL KING
I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it... TRENT REZNOR I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of mys...
UTADA HIKARU I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get...
CHRIS WOOD
I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time. FAMKE JANSSEN
When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world. BILLY COLLINS I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to f...
ERNEST GAINES I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majorit...
MAYSOON ZAYID I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go a...
DAVID ANTIN Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between ...
EMILY GIFFIN
My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night. DANIELLE STEEL That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ...
TED DEMME
I do all my own stunts. I'm kidding. DWAYNE JOHNSON
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. BOB EDWARDS
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. PAULA COLE I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I&#...
PATRICK COLLISON
I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springstee... DANA CARVEY
I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a... NICOLAS CAGE
I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never ... KELLY CLARKSON And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
UTADA HIKARU
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permiss... LANA DEL REY It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd...
KEELEY HAWES As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?
EUGENE ORMANDY I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it reall...
DANIEL ALARCON I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I&#...
AMY SCHUMER I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.
JACOB BATALON
I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the ... ALICE MUNRO
I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I g... CASSANDRA CLARE
I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-m... CHRIS EVANS
When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
RICK MOODY
I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country arti... SAM HUNT
I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to th... GARTH RISK HALLBERG
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. MAYA ANGELOU
I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shap... HANNIBAL BURESS
I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up... RUBEN STUDDARD I love lifestyle stuff, I love housewares. I'm really a homebody, honestly. Anything to do with ...
KELIS
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You lea... MICHAEL MORPURGO
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and... J. D. SALINGER When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frighte...
BARRY LOPEZ
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my... CARL HIAASEN I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great...
SAMANTHA MUMBA
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to giv... CASS MCCOMBS
From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more f... CONOR MCGREGOR I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to...
PAUL FEIG The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within ...
CAREY MULLIGAN When I'm home, I cook my own dinner, all organic.
BIG SEAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to c...
GENE LUEN YANG While he spends all of his time trying to remember... I spend all of my time trying to forget
COLLEN HOOVER
It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real. 
Telling someone the truth is a loving act. 
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. 