Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

Gavin DeGraw

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

Carlos Fuentes

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

Chris Jericho

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

Claire Messud

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Claire Tomalin

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything. Just emotions.

Harry Styles

I have no taste for poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

Iain Banks

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Jami Attenberg

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

Jami Attenberg

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

John Barton

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

John Bolton

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

Judy Blume

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

Julian Barnes

When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.

JC Chasez

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

Danielle Steel

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Elizabeth George

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

Ernest Gaines

I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2' I think once.

Ehren Kruger

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

Ben Mezrich