Top 100 I Can T Write Quotes
#1. When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.
Michael Crichton
#2. I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
Adele
#3. I can't write to please everyone, but someone, somewhere will be touched if I put my heart into it.
Sara Winters
#4. I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.
Jay Watson
#5. I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.
Judy Gold
#6. I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.
David Leslie Johnson
#7. I don't believe in writer's block. If I can't write, I go out and live. Then, if I'm a writer, I'll find something to write.
Peter Arpesella
#8. After being diagnose as bi-polar ... I feel that laughter is the best medicine for all. I find that I can't write humorously and be depressed at the same time.
Timothy Pina
#9. I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.
Eric Whitacre
#10. I can't write songs unless I am in love.
Kevin Ayers
#11. I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.
Paul Haggis
#13. I can't write on the road. I have to be home. I have to be around all those rusted tractors and dilapidated fences and things like that, because it just grounds me in a way that I can't find in a hotel room.
John Fullbright
#15. I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
Carla H. Krueger
#16. I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Walter Raleigh
#17. If I wasn't acting, I'd try and be a footballer. I wouldn't be a musician because I can't write my own music. Realistically, I'd probably do something with dogs, like a vet or something. I love animals.
Jamie Blackley
#18. I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
Arabella Weir
#19. As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can't write a coda because I can't speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself.
G.R. Reader
#20. I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
Brett Dennen
#21. A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#22. Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.
J. B. Smoove
#23. Obviously, I can't write about most of that; what I saw of the overall battle was like looking at an enormous landscape painting through a tiny straw. W
Chris Kyle
#24. Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.
Hillary Clinton
#25. Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.
Thomas Steinbeck
#27. I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.
Jay Watson
#28. I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
#29. The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
Billy Ray Cyrus
#30. I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.
Liz Goldwyn
#31. I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.
Lucy Alibar
#32. I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
John Cheever
#33. It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
Maria Semple
#34. Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
Philip Larkin
#35. I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.
Stacy Schiff
#37. I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
Patrick Carney
#38. When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.
Dylan Moran
#39. I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
Alan Dean Foster
#40. I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.
Robin Williams
#41. I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.
Julian Barnes
#42. If I can't write it would be as if I died.
Chris Cleave
#43. I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.
Terry Jones
#44. I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
Christopher Moore
#45. I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.
George Lucas
#46. Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
Erin Morgenstern
#47. I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin
#48. I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.
Ron Shock
#49. I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.
Gary Hume
#50. I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
Patricia Highsmith
#51. I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.
Shelby Lynne
#52. I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
Vikram Seth
#53. I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.
Chelsea Cain
#54. I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
Jeff Lindsay
#55. In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.
Rick Moody
#56. My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
Marvin Hamlisch
#57. I can't write the same book over and over again ... let it go, once it's gone!
Jane Gardam
#58. I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.
Eric Van Lustbader
#59. I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.
Douglas Preston
#60. I can't write, I am not a writer, you say. Remember no one has ever become a writer without actually writing
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#61. Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
Jenny Offill
#62. I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#63. I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write.
Markus Zusak
#64. I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.
Lorraine Adams
#65. I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
Simon Schama
#66. It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I can change seven.
Dorothy Parker
#68. My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.
Jane Kenyon
#69. I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.
Harvey Pekar
#70. No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you ... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.
Ronald Harwood
#71. There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.
Harry Connick Jr.
#72. 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
#73. I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.
Dannel Malloy
#74. I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'
Rainbow Rowell
#75. The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
Chuck Palahniuk
#76. If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
Sadie Jones
#77. If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.
Peter O'Toole
#78. I don't know what's wrong with me, My brain doesn't work anymore. I haven't any memory. I can't write. All I can do is sign my name. I tried to write the other day-it looked like I was writing in Braille.
Robert Pattinson
#79. If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.
Mark Zuckerberg
#80. I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
Dan Farmer
#81. I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.
Diablo Cody
#82. I love writing about places I know well. Research is my least favourite thing, as it takes time from the story, but I can't write about a place I've never experienced.
Dixie Browning
#83. People offer me loads of stuff, and some of it I like, but I just can't do it because I can't write it all. So I might get in the position where I have some sort of company and just write maybe the first episode, but these are love projects, in a way.
Michael Hirst
#85. I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.
J.K. Rowling
#86. It seems like songwriting for most songwriters is only one season in their life, a five or ten year period. For me, I don't worry about it, but I know there might come a day when I can't write anymore, or don't have good song ideas or the fire to do it anymore.
Rodney Clawson
#88. I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.
William Sleator
#89. I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
Patrick Ness
#90. I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
Tate Taylor
#91. I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.
Elsie De Wolfe
#92. I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.
Michael Irvin
#93. My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
Amy Lee
#94. When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.
Meg Rosoff
#95. Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
Kate Atkinson
#96. I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.
Charles Saatchi
#97. I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.
Jennifer Aniston
#98. Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'
Kate Atkinson
#99. I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.
Dannel Malloy
#100. If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.
Jez Butterworth
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