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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.


J.D. Salinger

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LEON BRIDGES I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.
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BILL BUDGE If there is pain in my life or something that is wrong. I try to go to that place in me and write fr...
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CHRISTINA GRIMMIE To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
DAVID GRANN I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons....
ISABEL ALLENDE I write romance because I love to read romance.
RACHEL GIBSON I write in the studio.
MACY GRAY I write my music.
T-PAIN I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a s...
BLAKE BAILEY I write because there is a madness within me to express my thoughts in words. I write because I feel...
AVIJEET DAS I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it b...
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RAY CHARLES I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still ...
IAN SOMERHALDER I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I ...
EVE BUNTING I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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GRAHAM GREENE I love to write.
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AL GOLDSTEIN I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
SIOBHAN FAHEY If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no dee...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are s...
CHARLES KING I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d...
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ZOLA JESUS I then plan to seclude myself and write a book about my experience,
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C. JOYBELL C. If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my gui...
KINA GRANNIS I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what...
ADELE I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my...
KEHLANI I write because I love it, not because I excel at it.  But because I write, I shall slowly e...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Ess...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes ...
C. S. FORESTER I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not...
PAUL SIMON I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can'...
CAROLINE LEAVITT I write many essays on whales. I love whales, especially orcas. And dolphins.
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.
ALISON MCGHEE I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
BARRY HANNAH I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family...
CARMEN AGRA DEEDY I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited....
RACHEL KUSHNER When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I wr...
GEORGE ORWELL I write with as much objectivity as I can.
ERNEST GAINES I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of...
ADAM RAPP I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
JIM HARRISON I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet poin...
KATHY GRIFFIN At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my ...
DAVE GROHL Music is my entire world since I was a child. Some years ago I began to write down my own ideas and ...
DENIZ INAN I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like ...
NOEL CLARKE Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to c...
VOLTAIRE I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
TAIYE SELASI I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was ho...
JAMES FREY I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
JOHN ASHBERY I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd her...
NICHOLAS TRANDAHL I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.
EDWARD P. JONES When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water....
SCOTT WEILAND I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
ALEXIS BLEDEL It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.
MEG ROSOFF I write to escape; to escape poverty.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS I write very slowly.
CARLA BLEY I write with teenagers in mind.
BERNARD BECKETT I write, but I also act.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.
JAMES TOBACK Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than m...
JOAN DIDION I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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EDAN LEPUCKI I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at al...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE A fleeting second on someone's news feed,
No dearth of meanings for those who read,
Not my...
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JULIA CAMERON I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote)
LINCOLN KENNEDY I must never write when I do not want to write.
LANGSTON HUGHES I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just ...
SWAE LEE I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
BRYAN ADAMS "Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epita...
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DIDO ARMSTRONG I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it reall...
DANIEL ALARCON I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I wr...
LAURA BELL BUNDY I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, t...
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J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...
J.D. SALINGER If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable...
J.D. SALINGER Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ...
J.D. SALINGER We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ...
J.D. SALINGER Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa...
J.D. SALINGER If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. SALINGER People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
J.D. SALINGER Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—...
J.D. SALINGER I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
J.D. SALINGER If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
J.D. SALINGER It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J.D. SALINGER I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
J.D. SALINGER I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J.D. SALINGER It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J.D. SALINGER Sleep tight, ya morons!
J.D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J.D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J.D. SALINGER Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
J.D. SALINGER Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
J.D. SALINGER One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
J.D. SALINGER You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
J.D. SALINGER But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
J.D. SALINGER Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
J.D. SALINGER Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
J.D. SALINGER We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
J.D. SALINGER -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
J.D. SALINGER If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
J.D. SALINGER I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
J.D. SALINGER Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
J.D. SALINGER O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
J.D. SALINGER People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
J.D. SALINGER Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J.D. SALINGER Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
J.D. SALINGER I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
J.D. SALINGER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER