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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... ROBERT CECIL DAY-LEWIS
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... CECIL DAY-LEWIS First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If...
C. DAY LEWIS I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.
BRIAN A. MCBRIDE I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
ALEX FLINN I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud ...
TAWNI O'DELL I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage ...
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d...
JOY FIELDING
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. LORD BYRON
if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad GEORGE GORDON BYRON
I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes lat... DAVID A. ADLER
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. WALLY LAMB
My pen beats faster as I write with my heart MUNIA KHAN
If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. GEORGE GORDON BYRON
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. MAYA ANGELOU Only write what inspires you to write. If nothing inspires you write, anyhow. Something might come u...
A.J. CHILSON There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tel...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.
ADRIENNE KENNEDY I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.
ADRIENNE KENNEDY
I write many essays on whales. I love whales, especially orcas. And dolphins. MILLIE BOBBY BROWN Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
DAVID HERBERT DONALD
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de... JO NESBO I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family li...
UZO ADUBA I write with teenagers in mind.
BERNARD BECKETT
I know how to write fiction well. AKHIL SHARMA
I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. J. D. SALINGER Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.
DON DOKKEN
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don&#... HARUKI MURAKAMI
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform... VIKRAM SETH When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious ef...
KIM ELIZABETH I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd her...
NICHOLAS TRANDAHL
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b... MAYA ANGELOU
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart. GARY SHTEYNGART If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
WANDA JACKSON
I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
SHANNON L. ALDER Write Your Name Across My Heart.
LOU RAWLS
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Ess... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to... RAINBOW ROWELL For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novel...
DAVID GRANN I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
ANTONIA FRASER
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. ALAN BENNETT
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. URSULA K. LE GUIN
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experime... CARL SANDBURG I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
JONATHAN LETHEM If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
WANDA JACKSON
I grasp words for the sake of clutching My mind considers them heart touching
Right then ...
MUNIA KHAN And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I ...
R.B. O'BRIEN
Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing. TUPAC SHAKUR No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so li...
STELLA ATRIUM
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get t... ARMISTEAD MAUPIN
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ... J.D. SALINGER
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. JOHN ASHBERY
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. ANNIE LENNOX
I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back. LAURA MVULA I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
AARON CARTER
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about. TUCKER MAX I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.
EDWARD P. JONES
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons.... ISABEL ALLENDE
I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think. MATTIE STEPANEK When the answer is beyond what I know, I must open my mind and heart to find it.
JIM GENOVESE
I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had ... KAREN JOY FOWLER Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
IAN RANKIN One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.
“Writing for te...
L.L. BARKAT
I write my music. T-PAIN
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in... J. K. ROWLING My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to...
BRENDA RUSSELL I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
TED CHIANG
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic... W. G. SEBALD I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpo...
FRED DURST
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come... ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present... FLANNERY O'CONNOR To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
DAVID GRANN
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my... WILL SELF
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction. DAVID NICHOLLS Most times I pick my pen with the intention to write, I find out that I can't write much. Most of my...
OLASOT
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried ... AMY TAN I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w... KAZUO ISHIGURO
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never... ISABEL ALLENDE
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to c... VOLTAIRE
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of K... JOHN UPDIKE
I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when ... PHILIP ROTH I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am th...
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With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them. KATY PERRY I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a s...
BLAKE BAILEY
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, t... NICHOLAS SPARKS
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my o... OSCAR WILDE
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at scho... ANITA DESAI
I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good... RAINBOW ROWELL The day I open my eyes to you, was also the day I open my heart to you.
JAYSON ENGAY
To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect ...
SANHITA BARUAH I write in the studio.
MACY GRAY
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. KARL KRAUS
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays KARL KRAUS
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear
Glean after what it can. PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so... PHILIP ROTH I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still ...
IAN SOMERHALDER I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
DAVID GRANN
I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
