Write Quotes · Page 100

“Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.”

— Austin Penman

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

— Grant Heslov

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

— Sidney Sheldon

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

— Nelson Algren

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

— Clifford Geertz

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

— Meryl Streep

“Write the way you want to, not the way you think you should.”

— Nicola J. McDonagh

I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.

— Philip K. Dick

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song…

— Tom Petty

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

— Jamaica Kincaid

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the…

— David Benioff

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there…

— Gene Weingarten

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

— Jeff Kinney

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

— Isabel Allende

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write…

— Claire Messud

I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just…

— Harold Pinter

The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God…

— Michael Jackson

I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from…

— J. R. Moehringer

Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem…

— Gioconda Belli

“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key…

— Anonymous

I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to…

— James Frey

Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country…

— Kevin Barry

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't…

— Conor Oberst

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.

— Michel Faber

“The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.”

— John Gardner

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

— Mike Stoller

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

— George A. Sheehan

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

— Christopher Moore

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play

— Edward Bond

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

— William Trevor

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

— Gary Shteyngart

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

— Thomas Keller

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

— Mort Walker

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

— Steve Martin

“Never trust someone else to write your life story. Take the pen, and write it yourself.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“The grace of writing is upon me. I love writing. I write daily.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You write for other people and it feels you're giving a little bit of yourself away.

— Dean Lewis