#i write

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#am #conversation #engage #i #i am

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#beginning #being #biographies #book #called

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. ↗

— Horace

#i #i write #never #nobody #same

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#head #i #i write #inside #left

I write emotional music. ↗

— Les Baxter

#i #i write #music #write

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#agree #aspects #even #going #humorous

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#doing #even #i #i write #long

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. ↗

— Brian Celio

#except #i #i write #my own #obviously

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#drop #everything #i #i write #last

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#factor #i #i think #i write #key