Top 100 I Want To Write Quotes
#1. Yes, writing comes easy for me and it's also a painful, arduous process. I love writing. I hate writing. I never want to write again, and I want to write all day, everyday.
Tyrone Jaeger
#2. I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
T Bone Burnett
#3. I am a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
J.K. Rowling
#4. I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.
Ronald Sukenick
#5. I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.
Lisa Marie Presley
#6. When I want to put out an album, I want to write it. I want to be able to say that I wrote my album, and all this stuff is from me.
Jimmy Bennett
#7. I always said that I want to write a book about success and my story and my brand and everything that goes with it, as a woman, as a leader, as someone who has stepped up to the plate and who opens the door for the rest of the women from the Middle East.
Reem Acra
#8. My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I want to write about.
Haruki Murakami
#9. I want to write a song based on my own childbirth. Of course, this is all a bit premature.
Jarod Kintz
#10. I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.
Ben Gibbard
#11. The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.
Melissa Rosenberg
#12. I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
Helen Keller
#13. The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.
Lawrence Block
#14. Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.
Susan Patron
#15. I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.
Matthea Harvey
#16. I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.
Emma Watson
#17. I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.
Anthony Evans
#18. What's more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That's what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it's something we should be uncomfortable about.
George Pelecanos
#19. It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.
Harvey Pekar
#20. George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer ... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
Haruki Murakami
#21. I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
Zadie Smith
#22. The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.
Tess Gerritsen
#23. I want to write and direct a movie one day.
Elle Fanning
#24. There's not enough coffee in the world to fuel all the books I want to write
Christopher Stocking
#25. I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
Nick Cave
#26. I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read one over the course of a summer, but that isn't what I want to write.
Joan Didion
#27. If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.
Mitch Leigh
#28. When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier. It helps, naturally, to have something to say.
Edward Abbey
#29. I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
Paul Auster
#30. All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
Nate Silver
#31. I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.
Bristol Palin
#32. Even listening to a lot of other music inspires me, too. Like I'll find something and be like, "I love this group!" And I want to write something that's kind of like this.
LeAnn Rimes
#33. I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
Francesca Lia Block
#34. I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
Annie Lennox
#35. Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
Penelope Lively
#36. 'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'
Katrina Law
#37. I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels ... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.
Orhan Pamuk
#38. I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.
Teri Garr
#39. I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.
Jenny Slate
#40. Part of the reason why I want to write these books is to make everybody realize that we're all fantastic.
Sara Alexi in interview with Dario Ciriello
Sara Alexi
#41. I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous.
Daniel Radcliffe
#42. It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.
Clive James
#43. When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.
Scott Weiland
#44. I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.
Brian A. McBride
#46. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
Ann Patchett
#47. There are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.
Mikl Paul
#48. It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
Tennessee Williams
#49. I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
George R R Martin
#50. 'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.
Eric Brown
#51. I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.
Woody Allen
#52. I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'
Teju Cole
#53. I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
Neil Gaiman
#54. I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
Amanda Hocking
#55. As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'
Cliff Burton
#56. For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.
Chris Daughtry
#57. I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou
#58. Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.
Jennifer Armstrong
#59. I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.
Kerry Greenwood
#60. I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.
Claudia Rankine
#61. I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.
Stanley Kunitz
#62. I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.
You are a second away from saying it.
You have no idea how much I love you.
David Levithan
#63. When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
Sharon Creech
#64. I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.
Stephen Chbosky
#65. 6If I want to write, I write. So just do it. If you think that making time for writing is a problem, just wait until you finish a book, and find a great aching desert of emptiness stretching before you.
Thorne Moore
#66. 'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.
William Kent Krueger
#67. You say that like I have a choice. These are the ideas that come to me. These are the ideas that have always come to me. If it can bleed me,eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it. -L.K. on why she writes about sex and monsters in 'Flirt' Afterword
Laurell K. Hamilton
#68. Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
Maggie Stiefvater
#69. I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view.
Maxine Kumin
#71. The Four Stages of Writer's Block
W.B. Stage I: I want to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage II: I have to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage I: I don't want to write but I have to.
W.B. Stage I: I don't have time for writing ... and, honestly, I don't feel like writing.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#72. Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.
Ashton Shepherd
#73. As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
Quentin Tarantino
#74. If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.
Evangeline Lilly
#75. Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write.
Why me?
Christopher Moore
#76. The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
Charles Simic
#77. I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
Jonathan Lethem
#78. I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
Ann Hood
#79. I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
Madeline Zima
#80. I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.
Robert Dessaix
#81. I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.
Ne-Yo
#82. I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
Sandra Cisneros
#83. Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
Steve Earle
#84. If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.
Brett Dennen
#85. Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.
Joan Jett
#86. I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
Jose Gonzalez
#89. I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'
Teri Garr
#90. I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature ... Never again another seven-volume saga.
George R R Martin
#91. People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books. But they think children are happy. That's their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.]
Mo Willems
#92. I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
George R R Martin
#93. I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas ... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.
Miguel Syjuco
#94. Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.
Edward Hirsch
#95. I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.
Orhan Pamuk
#96. I always feel like I want to write a song when I'm really upset. And when I'm in an argument with my family, I go straight to the piano and just kind of take it out on the piano and get all emotional.
Pixie Lott
#97. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.
Emma Watson
#98. I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.
Stephen King
#99. I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
Quentin Tarantino
#100. I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.
Victoria Justice
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