Top 100 I Write Quotes
#1. Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.
William Mapother
#2. As I write, the President of the United States is a former Hollywood movie actor.
Neil Postman
#3. A lot of times people do spiritual practice just for themselves. I try to turn that a little bit. I try to make spiritual practice more a part of the community. I write about infusing people with compassion.
Sakyong Mipham
#4. I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.
Tony Visconti
#5. I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
Dawn French
#6. While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.
Sara Sheridan
#7. It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which wouldn't be good for me or fair to my readers.
William T. Vollmann
#8. Some people get offended with what I write. In their own little pathetic world, they truly believe I should apologize for being a writer.
Daniel Marques
#9. You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#10. I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.
Joyce Carol Oates
#11. A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
Karen Traviss
#12. The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
Stephen Malkmus
#13. Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.
Jane Siberry
#14. I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.
Jane Hirshfield
#15. It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
Erica Jong
#16. Everything that I write will be signed with my name.
Elinor Glyn
#18. I write what I call "Factual Fiction," whereby my plot, story and characters are not loosely set in history but intrinsically tied to real events, people and places.
Karen A. Chase
#19. 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
#20. I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.
Jack O'Brien
#21. I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences.
Antonia Perdu
#22. The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.
Robin McKinley
#24. I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings
Macklemore
#25. I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
Aaron Carter
#26. CHRIST IS ADVOCATE. [1 Jn. 2:1, 2] My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father - Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
Anonymous
#27. I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.
Kitty Kelley
#29. I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.
Louis Begley
#30. I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#31. I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.
Thighpaulsandra
#32. I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.
Jane Wiedlin
#33. I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it.
Chazz Palminteri
#34. I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry Pratchett
#35. Religious people never believe I write books. Someone should tell them books aren't only produced in monasteries anymore.
Daniel Marques
#36. Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.
Ryan Lilly
#37. I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song. You see, I do not write for glory or to get anything for free. I just sit down and I write, because it makes so much sense to me.
Terri F. Williams
#38. To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.
Terry Tempest Williams
#39. Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
Jonathan Kozol
#40. I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
Maurice Saatchi
#41. I write a note and tape it to my window
I'M NOT A DETECTIVE.
BE SPECIFIC!
Lisa Schroeder
#42. People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures ... There's nothing incredible about it.
Joe Orton
#43. I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
Fiona Apple
#45. I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#46. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.
Etgar Keret
#47. I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.
Swae Lee
#48. We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, 'Friday, Nov. 8. Three o'clock. Have a genius creative idea.'
Tom Ford
#49. I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.
Ben Mezrich
#50. I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.
H. Raven Rose
#51. I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
Werner Herzog
#52. When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.
Lisa Marie Presley
#53. I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.
R.J. Dennis
#54. I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.
Lia Ices
#55. I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.
Bill Callahan
#56. I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
Anthony Hopkins
#57. I never heard such drivel in my life," said Evangeline Fairfield.
It was the most injudicious remark she'd ever made. Arethusa turned on her like a wounded tigress.
Madam, I write such drivel!
Alisa Craig
#58. I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.
Alvin Lee
#59. What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#60. I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
Adele
#61. Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.
Alice Walker
#62. It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
Garth Ennis
#63. Although my work is to grapple with words, I have no words with which to describe and explain this feeling. Perhaps I write stories to show that in life there are moments, emotions, and events that cannot be explained with words.
Shahriar Mandanipour
#65. Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
Kurt Vonnegut
#66. I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
Raina Telgemeier
#67. If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.
Courtney Barnett
#68. If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.
Misha Collins
#69. I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
Don Mattingly
#70. The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself.
Jeanette Michelle
#71. When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
Jean Cocteau
#72. Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Elvis Costello
#73. Whenever I write I always transport myself into the story to get a better glimpse to what I am capturing.
Raleigh Daniels
#74. I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.
Jason Robert Brown
#75. when i write of you, my dear
i am holding you
in the most
exquisite
ways.
Sanober Khan
#76. I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.
R.A. Lafferty
#77. In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
Neal Stephenson
#78. Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.
Reif Larsen
#81. I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us dismantle the notion that a woman cannot be free with her sexuality or that she needs a man to make her complete. This one is for the little girls with hearts on their sleeves.
Crystal Evans
#82. I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
Alexis Bledel
#83. I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.
J.K. Rowling
#84. For some the truth is too painful to hear. For others, it's a healing balm. This is why I write - to heal.
Kathleen M. Rodgers
#85. I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.
Brett Dennen
#86. So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a
word, and each word is a sound in my head, and each time I write another
word, I hear the sound of my own voice, even though my lips are silent.
Paul Auster
#87. I write with my past, about the future, for the present
Eyedea
#88. I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
Lenny Kravitz
#89. The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.
Zachary Cole Smith
#90. So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the sound of chirping birds hidden in the almond trees, the almonds still green and thriving in the foliage.
Linda Gregg
#91. I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
Caroline Lawrence
#92. I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.
Kiese Laymon
#94. I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.
Jeff Kinney
#95. I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.
Anne Schroeder
#96. I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.
Libba Bray
#97. How can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these thoughts in vain?
Vladimir Nabokov
#99. As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.
Enrique Vila-Matas
#100. There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
Andrea Barrett
