Write Quotes · Page 101

Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldn’t. Blow something up. But well.

— Shalom Auslander

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

— Frederick Busch

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

— Kevin J. Anderson

“Write each day as if no one will see it, yet write in a way as if the whole world will see…

— Jon Mills

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

— Terry Pratchett

I'm not clever enough to write. It's as basic and tragic as that.

— Caroline Quentin

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

— Lena Dunham

I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

— Andrew Scott

I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole…

— Nora Ephron

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I…

— Peter Straub

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

— Ben Folds

“It doesn’t matter that something you’ve done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one…

— John McPhee

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in…

— Mary J. Miller

Regret is something I wanted to write a lot about because once you make a decision, regret doesn't do anything except linger…

— Crystal Hana Kim

I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've…

— Paul Auster

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can. I tell the songwriter's…

— Sharon Jones

“I hope you have a book telling others how you do what you do. If you answered no, then I challenge you…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody…

— Roseanne Barr

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted…

— Julia Glass

People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they…

— Warren Zevon

Life is painful sometimes. It touches everyone, so you may as well try to look for other answers and find peace. So,…

— J.H. Wyman

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

— Julio Cortazar

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

— David E. Kelley

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

— John Eldredge

I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

— Justine Larbalestier

Write your own story... because you never want to end up just a footnote in somebody else's story.

— JOHNREYES

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

— Colm Toibin

“History is the nothing people write about a nothing.”

— William Golding

I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

— Dee Rees

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

— Paula Danziger

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

— Shane McCrae

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

— Barbara Mertz

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

— Thornton Wilder

We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

— Flea

I write about things that are really happening, serious things.

— Wilson Pickett

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

— John Dos Passos