Top 100 Quotes About Write
#1. I've obliterated three days trying to come up with an elegant way to write what I'm about to write, but I think the least elegant way is probably best: I like Kanye West.
Chuck Klosterman
#2. While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and still pass as something hybrid-y enough for my poetry workshops, I was looking for models, for forebears.
John D'Agata
#3. Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.
Magda Gerber
#4. I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.
Phil Klay
#5. For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.
Edward Rutherfurd
#7. I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.
Terry Teachout
#8. If God is going to write your loves story, He's going to first need your pen.
Eric Ludy
#9. For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.
Mark Millar
#10. I usually just write down what I'm doing and how I felt. How I felt if I'm skating fast, compared to if I'm skating slow or if I'm tired. I can always go back and look as a reference and see what I was doing. It's pretty much my life on ice.
Shani Davis
#11. Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow
#12. Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
Lois Wyse
#13. Write about the cow, Mrs. Spaulding's heavy eyelids, the smell of vanilla flavoring in a brown bottle. That's where the magic mountains begin.
Sylvia Plath
#14. I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.
Big Sean
#15. Take a moment to write down everything you enjoy about the field you work in.
Anthony Jordan
#16. If you want to do anything, you got to go do it. Perform a lot, write a lot, make yourself better. Use the Internet, make videos, create content.
Hannibal Buress
#17. I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
Taylor Swift
#18. I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.
Sandra Cisneros
#19. I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.
Padgett Powell
#21. If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.
Thomas Merton
#22. When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.
Markus Zusak
#23. I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
Dan Brown
#24. I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.
Lorde
#25. But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Glenn Danzig
#26. A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing ...
Dorothy Bryant
#27. Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.
Isabel Allende
#28. And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
Utada Hikaru
#29. When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
M.F.K. Fisher
#30. I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.
Dannel Malloy
#31. I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.
Claudia Rankine
#32. It's like you tune in to a supernatural event, and anyone who is destined to interact with that event picks up the same psychic signature. You tune in to radio-station freaky and write what you hear.
Wen Spencer
#33. I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
Peter Carey
#34. But how do I get to having to write a book? ... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!
Robert Musil
#35. I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.
Joss Whedon
#36. I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Paulo Coelho
#37. IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be.
Shiree McCarver
#38. I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.
Harry Mathews
#39. I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
Jonathan Carroll
#40. I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
Edmund White
#41. Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.
James Woods
#42. I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
Felix Dennis
#43. I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
Etgar Keret
#44. I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.
Brad Thor
#45. All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Gerald Durrell
#46. I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks!
Isla Fisher
#47. If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
Jose Saramago
#48. Even if the past exists as an independent reality outside the minds of those who write about it, we can never know that reality. Historians and writers of historical fiction attempt to fill in the gaps, to say: 'This is how it might have been.'
John Zanetti
#49. I finally figured out that it doesn't matter what other people want to read. It matters what you want to write. You write the story that you would want to read, and then fans will come. If you love what you write, others will too.
Jami Montgomery
#50. We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.
John Denver
#51. To write poems, I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
Nikki Giovanni
#52. Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat.
Katrina Monroe
#53. On the whole, stories don't write themselves.
Neil Gaiman
#54. I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
Anthony Horowitz
#55. That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
Lynn Abbey
#56. What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.
Steve Pemberton
#57. I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.
Josh Lawson
#58. People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen
#59. My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.
Joshua Ferris
#60. You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write.
I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.
Donna Boyd
#61. No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
Mel Brooks
#62. I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.
Beyonce Knowles
#63. Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?
Neil Rackham
#64. [On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
Brian Chesky
#65. When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
Imogen Heap
#66. I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.
Clark Gregg
#67. Author, author, did you write these legs?( The Milligan- Puckoon
Spike Milligan
#68. I erase the word and start over. I'm working on the "Everything we still don't" list. I'm tempted to write: everything important and also: whether Simon Snow is actually gay. And: whether I'll live forever.
Rainbow Rowell
#69. What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#70. And you won't write any more stupid songs about me?"
"Can't promise that. In fact, that may be all I do for the rest of my life.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
#71. I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue.
Lauren DeStefano
#72. It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.
Lady Gaga
#73. I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#74. If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write.
Joyce Rachelle
#75. I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#76. That's such a wonderful thing about the mixing process is when you write the demo or the track, [and] it sort of goes through a couple of different changes and you don't really know what tracks are going to end up working out.
Lizzy Plapinger
#77. He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#78. I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.
Charlie Kaufman
#79. Until you run out of pages, there's still room to write an epic ending.
Kevin Ngo
#80. I type everything on my computer. I carry a writer's notebook everywhere, in case I am struck by an idea. I forget things unless I write them down. I'm planning to learn how to dictate into my cellphone; I think that will be very helpful, too.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#81. Want your words to live forever? Write them on your pants in mustard.
Sean DeLauder
#82. I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.
Jennifer McMahon
#83. He'd write letters by the ream, if it was a capital offence!
Charles Dickens
#84. I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
Andrew Davies
#85. I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#86. Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
Morgan Freeman
#87. Write on a screen that has no Internet access.
Bruno Heller
#88. It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.
A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That's all I can say.
Kurt Vonnegut
#89. Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.
Eminem
#90. I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
Lynn Abbey
#91. I would write my tears, weeping out my pain - I would empty my veins for ink.
Muse
#92. I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.
Curtis Jackson
#93. Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.
Maria Semple
#95. All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?
Nikos Kazantzakis
#96. Novices in the arts think you have to start with inspiration to write or paint or compose. In fact, you only have to start. Inspiration comes if you continue. Make the commitment to sit still in solitude several hours a day and inevitably your muse will visit.
Erica Jong
#97. I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
Audre Lorde
#98. Write when you least feel like it,
Because that's when you write best.
Nema Al-Araby
#99. Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It's just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.
Janet Burroway
#100. I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.
Meg Rosoff
