Write it up!

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

— Jonathan Brandis

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.”

— P.S. Bartlett

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something…

— Allison Joseph

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in…

— Isabel Allende

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

Writers…born not in the Halls of Education…but in the fires of necessity. Masters not of prose, form, language, or a perceived command of the…

— Vladislas Nikilovic

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life.…

— James W. Pennebaker