Write Quotes · Page 104

The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.

— E. L. James

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

— Michelle Richmond

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

— David Guterson

If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.

— Kate Green

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

— Johnny Vegas

People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.

— Sevyn Streeter

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

— Robert Smith

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write…

— Jonah Peretti

Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something…

— Sonakshi Sinha

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me…

— Neil Simon

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one…

— Kate Capshaw

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what…

— Tara Westover

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

— Len Deighton

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to…

— Moses Malone

E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an…

— Steve Crocker

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a…

— Gary Reilly

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally…

— Jess Walter

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's…

— Henning Mankell

I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the…

— Jools Holland

I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what…

— Wallace Shawn

Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with…

— Nancy Kress

I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility…

— Anne Frank

As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes…

— Henry Rollins

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

— Rita Dove

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

— Laura Marling

I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to…

— Pauline Chalamet

I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

— David Baldacci

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

— Gustav Mahler

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

— Marty Feldman

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

— Tracy Chapman

I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.

— Judy Gold

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

— Rebecca Wells

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

— Sarah Waters

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

— Prince Philip

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

— Ansel Elgort

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

— Eminem