--- title: "12 Shouldn Write Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 12 Shouldn Write quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Shouldn Write sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/gustav-mahler-9935_way_if-i-weren-t-the-way-i-am-i-shouldn-t-wr_2172466.jpg" --- > [If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/if-i-weren-t-the-way-i-am-i-shouldn-t-write-my-symphonies/) [Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/gustav-mahler-9935_way_if-i-weren-t-the-way-i-am-i-shouldn-t-wr_2172466.jpg) > [I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-breitbart/i-have-a-theory-you-shouldn-t-write-a-book-unless-you-have-something/) [Andrew Breitbart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-breitbart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fc/andrew-breitbart-2046_book_i-have-a-theory-you-shouldn-t-write-a-bo_2614848.png) > [“If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-brackin/if-women-don-t-like-men-staring-at-their-chests-they-shouldn-t-write/) [Ron Brackin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-brackin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/ron-brackin-16664_chest_if-women-don-t-like-men-staring-at-their_2237112.jpg) > [Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/nearly-everybody-is-looking-for-something-brave-to-do-i-don-t-know/) [Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab4/robert-frost-371_brave_nearly-everybody-is-looking-for-somethin_791409.png) > [One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margrethe-ii-of-denmark/one-shouldn-t-write-one-s-own-epitaph-i-hope-people-will-remember-me/) [Margrethe II of Denmark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margrethe-ii-of-denmark/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5c/margrethe-ii-of-denmark-20748_best_one-shouldn-t-write-one-s-own-epitaph-i_1010308.png) > [I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/i-tell-my-students-there-is-such-a-thing-as-writer-s-block-and-they/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/toni-morrison-271_block_i-tell-my-students-there-is-such-a-thing_855819.jpg) > [“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-langer/maybe-authors-shouldn-t-write-more-than-one-or-two-books-maybe-you/) [Adam Langer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-langer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/507/adam-langer-32843_book_maybe-authors-shouldn-t-write-more-than_717728.jpg) > [If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-housman/if-i-loved-all-the-world-as-i-do-you-i-shouldn-t-write-books-to-it-i/) [Laurence Housman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-housman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/873/laurence-housman-21576_books_if-i-loved-all-the-world-as-i-do-you-i-s_808038.jpg) > [I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/i-was-a-new-writer-and-i-was-supposed-to-write-all-the-time-wasn-t-i/) [Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/stanley-crawford-42690_inspirational_i-was-a-new-writer-and-i-was-supposed-to_1282942.jpg) > [As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/as-a-past-president-of-the-writers-guild-i-think-women-shouldn-t/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cec/erica-jong-445_able_as-a-past-president-of-the-writers-guild_3221197.jpg) > [There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-gaffigan/there-s-this-message-to-comedians-in-particular-that-you-shouldn-t/) [Jim Gaffigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-gaffigan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/jim-gaffigan-580_able_there-s-this-message-to-comedians-in-par_2696712.jpg) > [I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write anything down because you're going to end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corey-taylor/i-ve-had-to-really-teach-myself-that-when-you-re-not-feeling-it-you/) [Corey Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corey-taylor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/corey-taylor-1968_anything_i-ve-had-to-really-teach-myself-that-whe_2719565.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shouldn-write/#itemlist", "name": "Shouldn Write Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gustav Mahler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/if-i-weren-t-the-way-i-am-i-shouldn-t-write-my-symphonies/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/gustav-mahler-9935_way_if-i-weren-t-the-way-i-am-i-shouldn-t-wr_2172466.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/gustav-mahler-9935_way_if-i-weren-t-the-way-i-am-i-shouldn-t-wr_2172466.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/gustav-mahler-9935_way_if-i-weren-t-the-way-i-am-i-shouldn-t-wr_2172466.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.” — Gustav Mahler", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andrew Breitbart" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-breitbart/i-have-a-theory-you-shouldn-t-write-a-book-unless-you-have-something/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fc/andrew-breitbart-2046_book_i-have-a-theory-you-shouldn-t-write-a-bo_2614848.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fc/andrew-breitbart-2046_book_i-have-a-theory-you-shouldn-t-write-a-bo_2614848.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fc/andrew-breitbart-2046_book_i-have-a-theory-you-shouldn-t-write-a-bo_2614848.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.” — Andrew Breitbart", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ron Brackin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-brackin/if-women-don-t-like-men-staring-at-their-chests-they-shouldn-t-write/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/ron-brackin-16664_chest_if-women-don-t-like-men-staring-at-their_2237112.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/ron-brackin-16664_chest_if-women-don-t-like-men-staring-at-their_2237112.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/ron-brackin-16664_chest_if-women-don-t-like-men-staring-at-their_2237112.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them.” — Ron Brackin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Frost" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/nearly-everybody-is-looking-for-something-brave-to-do-i-don-t-know/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab4/robert-frost-371_brave_nearly-everybody-is-looking-for-somethin_791409.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab4/robert-frost-371_brave_nearly-everybody-is-looking-for-somethin_791409.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab4/robert-frost-371_brave_nearly-everybody-is-looking-for-somethin_791409.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry…” — Robert Frost", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Margrethe II of Denmark" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margrethe-ii-of-denmark/one-shouldn-t-write-one-s-own-epitaph-i-hope-people-will-remember-me/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5c/margrethe-ii-of-denmark-20748_best_one-shouldn-t-write-one-s-own-epitaph-i_1010308.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5c/margrethe-ii-of-denmark-20748_best_one-shouldn-t-write-one-s-own-epitaph-i_1010308.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5c/margrethe-ii-of-denmark-20748_best_one-shouldn-t-write-one-s-own-epitaph-i_1010308.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who…” — Margrethe II of Denmark", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Toni Morrison" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/i-tell-my-students-there-is-such-a-thing-as-writer-s-block-and-they/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/toni-morrison-271_block_i-tell-my-students-there-is-such-a-thing_855819.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/toni-morrison-271_block_i-tell-my-students-there-is-such-a-thing_855819.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/toni-morrison-271_block_i-tell-my-students-there-is-such-a-thing_855819.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't…” — Toni Morrison", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Adam Langer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-langer/maybe-authors-shouldn-t-write-more-than-one-or-two-books-maybe-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/507/adam-langer-32843_book_maybe-authors-shouldn-t-write-more-than_717728.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/507/adam-langer-32843_book_maybe-authors-shouldn-t-write-more-than_717728.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/507/adam-langer-32843_book_maybe-authors-shouldn-t-write-more-than_717728.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and…” — Adam Langer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Laurence Housman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-housman/if-i-loved-all-the-world-as-i-do-you-i-shouldn-t-write-books-to-it-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/873/laurence-housman-21576_books_if-i-loved-all-the-world-as-i-do-you-i-s_808038.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/873/laurence-housman-21576_books_if-i-loved-all-the-world-as-i-do-you-i-s_808038.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/873/laurence-housman-21576_books_if-i-loved-all-the-world-as-i-do-you-i-s_808038.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and…” — Laurence Housman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stanley Crawford" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/i-was-a-new-writer-and-i-was-supposed-to-write-all-the-time-wasn-t-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/stanley-crawford-42690_inspirational_i-was-a-new-writer-and-i-was-supposed-to_1282942.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/stanley-crawford-42690_inspirational_i-was-a-new-writer-and-i-was-supposed-to_1282942.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/stanley-crawford-42690_inspirational_i-was-a-new-writer-and-i-was-supposed-to_1282942.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there…” — Stanley Crawford", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Erica Jong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/as-a-past-president-of-the-writers-guild-i-think-women-shouldn-t/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cec/erica-jong-445_able_as-a-past-president-of-the-writers-guild_3221197.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cec/erica-jong-445_able_as-a-past-president-of-the-writers-guild_3221197.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cec/erica-jong-445_able_as-a-past-president-of-the-writers-guild_3221197.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it…” — Erica Jong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a prevailing conventional wisdom that I think is really wrong. That's not to say that television writers aren't great, but I think that the belief that some comedy writer's going to be able to capture your voice is naive.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jim Gaffigan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-gaffigan/there-s-this-message-to-comedians-in-particular-that-you-shouldn-t/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/jim-gaffigan-580_able_there-s-this-message-to-comedians-in-par_2696712.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/jim-gaffigan-580_able_there-s-this-message-to-comedians-in-par_2696712.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/jim-gaffigan-580_able_there-s-this-message-to-comedians-in-par_2696712.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should…” — Jim Gaffigan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write anything down because you're going to end up coming back and re-writing it later. Whereas, if you write when you're feeling something, when you're really in the streak, then that's when you're going to get your best stuff.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Corey Taylor" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corey-taylor/i-ve-had-to-really-teach-myself-that-when-you-re-not-feeling-it-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/corey-taylor-1968_anything_i-ve-had-to-really-teach-myself-that-whe_2719565.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/corey-taylor-1968_anything_i-ve-had-to-really-teach-myself-that-whe_2719565.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/441/corey-taylor-1968_anything_i-ve-had-to-really-teach-myself-that-whe_2719565.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write anything down because…” — Corey Taylor", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shouldn-write/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shouldn-write/", "name": "Shouldn Write Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shouldn-write/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/gustav-mahler-9935_way_if-i-weren-t-the-way-i-am-i-shouldn-t-wr_2172466.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 12 Shouldn Write quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Shouldn Write sayings and thoughts.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shouldn-write/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shouldn-write/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Shouldn Write Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shouldn-write/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```