“I like to see if I can write a song about anything.”— Steven Levenson, Jon, Andrew Garfield, imdb.com
“I need to do something and I need to write again.”— Jeff Whitty, Nicole Holofcener, Lee Israel, Melissa McCarthy, imdb.com
“As if a man like you would ever write to a man like me.”— Russell T Davies, John Preston , Norman Scott, Ben Whishaw, imdb.com
“i don’t need you to write my story. i write every day & you couldn’t even translate the fucking punctuation. -she.”— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com
“A musician must make music. An artist must paint. A poet must write. If he is to be ultimately at peace with himself, what a man can be, he must be.”— Abraham Maslow, amazon.com
“"Do you have a pen- I don't have a pen...Can you remember all my shit? Do you have a lipstick or something? A crayon?"”— Dane Cook, genius.com
“Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it’s something…”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”— Flannery O’Connor, goodreads.com
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“Maybe I just write every single word I wish you would say to me.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”— Zadie Smith, faculty.sunydutchess.edu
“I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them. I am a better mother for it. The woman I am because I get to run Shondaland, because I get to write all day, because I get to spend my days making things up, that woman is a better person – and a better…”— Shonda Rhimes, huffingtonpost.com