Top 100 Write Your Quotes
#1. There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.
Pharrell Williams
#2. Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
August Wilson
#3. You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's a firefly glimmer in writing something that would please Rose.
Franny Billingsley
#4. Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all waiting to hear it.
Jody Lynn Nye
#5. In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.
A.J. Garces
#6. There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you have to die on the floor.
Joe Dunthorne
#7. Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.
Bob Hicok
#8. Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane. But I got a blank space baby, and I'll write your name.
Taylor Swift
#9. When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Douglas Adams
#10. And just a tip, if she won't listen to you, write your feeling down. Girls like letters." ~Christine, Leo's Chance, Ch.29
Mia Sheridan
#11. It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.
Tori Amos
#12. Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you how to write your book, but it helps you understand why things aren't working, or what kind of beat needs to come next.
Marcus Sakey
#13. The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.
Neil Gaiman
#14. Spread me like a sheet of paper. Write your life on mine. Fold past and present together like a letter. I am yours.
C.D. Reiss
#15. Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.
Ethan Canin
#16. Your existance hinders on no one but yourself. Only you can write your destiny. Fate is a mere parlor trick designed to coax you into believing otherwise. There is always a choice.
Chani Lynn Feener
#17. You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.
Jon Spaihts
#19. When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.
Bud Gardner
#20. Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.
Habeeb Akande
#21. People say, "You should write lyrics" and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you write your version of what someone else's lyrics are saying to you, and that enjoyment has never changed.
Elton John
#22. People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK.
Millicent Ashby
#23. Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson
#24. God respects men of faith. By faith you can write your name into the history of this generation.
Sunday Adelaja
#25. And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.
Harry Chapin
#26. If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
Garth Hudson
#27. Design your own universe, make your own stars, write your own stories, and create your own destiny.
Karina Halle
#28. I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
Ayana Mathis
#29. You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
Oprah Winfrey
#30. You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.
Sean Connery
#31. There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
Hanya Yanagihara
#32. If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.
Rita Mae Brown
#33. You get on a train, you disappear.
You write your name on the window, you disappear.
There are places like this everywhere,
places you enter as a young girl
from which you never return.
Louise Gluck
#35. Never trust someone else to write your life story. Take the pen, and write it yourself.
Ellen J. Barrier
#36. Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.
Christopher John Farley
#37. On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.
Charlie Puth
#38. You could write your fingers off for 25 years ... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
Jack Germond
#40. In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
Jessica Cutler
#41. You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
Anthony Of Sourozh
#42. Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
Ann Rule
#43. I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.
Kathryn Perez
#44. It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
Dave Mustaine
#45. A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.
Garrison Keillor
#47. Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.
Rachel Bloom
#48. If your characters write your story, rather than you writing your characters, it's like your dog taking YOU for a walk. Don't let them control you. Take charge and train them to listen to their master.
Jessica Bell
#49. Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last.
A.M. Willard
#50. So, Don't Mix Up Your Way To Write Your Life Story With Others, Then Definitely It Won't Sell. You Only Know What You're Encountering In Every Single Step. Everyone's Shoes Won't Fit In Your Feet ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#51. Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.
Alistair Begg
#52. Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case.
Jill Conner Browne
#53. Free will and choice implies that you are able to even re-write your record of memories.
Lionel Suggs
#54. If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost.
Kishore Bansal
#55. So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him ... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow ... Save details for the judge.
Betty Sue Flowers
#56. If you don't write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.
Sahara Sanders
#57. Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
Robert Rodriguez
#58. There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
Katey Sagal
#59. If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
Jose Saramago
#60. If God is going to write your loves story, He's going to first need your pen.
Eric Ludy
#62. Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.
Will Smith
#63. It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography - but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.
Margaret Atwood
#64. I write your name for the last time in this mist,
White breath on the windowpane,
And watch it vanish. No, it stays there.
Charles Wright
#65. When you speak, your words echo across the room. When you write, your words echo across the ages" Bud Gardner
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Claire Hamelin Manning
#66. If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco
#67. I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.
Nina Conti
#68. The only way out is to write your way out.
Mark Oetjens
#69. If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#70. Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.
Kendrick Lamar
#71. You are afraid to write your first novel because you say " I am not a talented great writer " But you forget that nobody was born a talented great writer.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#73. Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.
Amit Ray
#75. Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.
Eliza Green
#76. You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.
Bill Gates
#77. If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises
Happy Rhodes
#78. Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.
Nick Carter
#79. Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.
Grant Heslov
#80. If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.
Denzel Washington
#81. I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.
Alice Cooper
#82. The problem is that you don't always get to write your own story. You get written into some stories, and if ask why, there isn't an answer. You don't have any control, because the forces at work are too large to confront, and sometimes too large even to understand.
Brendan Kiely
#83. If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.
Rodney Dangerfield
#84. Child that is a beautiful note," the chief justice praised her, "but the next time you write your title, add an O to the countess.
Patricia Grasso
#85. Don't write what you know. Write who you are. Write your heart and soul. Write what you dream of when you look to the stars.
Luke Taylor
#86. Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.
Jacob M. Appel
#87. If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
David Mamet
#88. Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
Michael Morpurgo
#89. Write your "ass" off! Read! Learn! Get Better! Have fun!
Bob Stegner
#90. Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead
#91. INTERVIEWER:
What specific piece of advice would you give to young writers?
MALAMUD:
Write your heart out.
Bernard Malamud
#92. People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.
Kevin Smith
#93. If you don't write your books, there will be graveyards full of children.
(LDStorymakers Conference, May 2015)
Brandon Mull
#94. Life tells you many stories... but allows you to write your own.
Its your job to make it good"
Victor Ghoshe
Victor Ghoshe
#96. Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.
Jake Owen
#97. You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story.
V.E Schwab
#98. If you want to get caught robbing a bank, just write your holdup note on the back of one of your own checks or deposit slips. It happens about forty-five times a year in the United States, according to the FBI.
Cary McNeal
#99. I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
Chris Van Allsburg
#100. Spartan surroundings, yes, but surroundings have never been of any importance as far as your work is concerned, since the only space you occupy when you write your books is the page in front of your nose,
Paul Auster
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