Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

Talib Kweli

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

Tracy Kidder

I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.

Teri Louise Kelly

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Tom Robbins

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Trevor Rabin

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

Kate Adie

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Lisa Unger

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

Lucinda Williams

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

Mitch Albom

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

Mose Allison

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

Shane Black

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

Susan Choi

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

Martin Short

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Mary Wesley

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

Michael Arrington

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

Wally Lamb

Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.

Joe Jonas

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Ben Casnocha

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

Atul Gawande

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

Jennifer Rowe

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

Philip Levine