Write Quotes · Page 103

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

— Arabella Weir

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

— Robert B. Parker

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

— Henry Miller

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

— F. Sionil Jose

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

— Douglas Wood

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

— Richard Brautigan

If you enjoy your journey as a writer, you will never find it difficult to write.

— Ruskin Bond

I wanted to write about love at first sight because I fell in love at first sight.

— Ol Parker

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in…

— Anne Frank

I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict…

— Ger Duany

“I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me.…

— Kate McGahan

“(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less…

— W.B. Yeats

The neatest thing about television is that they write for you... They find out what you can do, what you do best,…

— Ann B. Davis

As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the…

— FKA twigs

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it…

— Charles Forsman

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write…

— Valerie June

For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your…

— Paulo Coelho

Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you don't even have…

— Claire Messud

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish.…

— Juanes

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful…

— Michael Cadnum

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response.…

— Susan Sontag

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is…

— Joy Williams

I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each…

— Morris Gleitzman

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

— Jason Isbell

Everything that I write, I somehow tie it back into who I am and how I grew up.

— Jimmie Allen

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Usually I write irrelevant twaddle and hope for the best.

— Tim Key

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

— Alanis Morissette

I ultimately write for myself and the people I love.

— Hisham Matar

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

— Calvin Trillin

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Moliere

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

— Teresa of Avila

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

— Nia Vardalos

“Don't give up and just keep writing! If you write well...followers will come!

— Timothy Pina

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

— Jennifer Gilmore

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

— Willie Nelson

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

— Ernest Hemingway

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

— Sue Monk Kidd