Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

Harlan Coben

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

Joyce Carol Oates

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

Jayne Anne Phillips

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.

Joe Scarborough

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

John Updike

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

Jeanette Winterson

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

Jennifer Weiner

Sometimes I write "Drink Coffee" on my to do list just to feel like I've accomplish something-Status Update

Darynda Jones Sixth Grave on the Edge

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

Jeffery Deaver

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

Jeffery Deaver

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

Jenna Fischer

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

John C. Hawkes

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

John Hope

And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.

Jack Kerouac

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

John Lydon

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

Carole King

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

Faith Evans

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

John Grisham

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

Jill McCorkle

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

Jessica Simpson