Write Quotes · Page 107

“You don't write what you know you write to find out what you don't know”

— Patricia Hemphall

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

— Jose Feliciano

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

— George R. R. Martin

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

— Irving Berlin

“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

— Tony Earley

“Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?”

— Theresa Rebeck

“If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

I didn't have a lot of friends. I just walked around a lot and made up stories in my head. Then I'd…

— Shel Silverstein

It was the part of Gambian culture where they give each other advice a lot, how they're always comparing things in order…

— Seinabo Sey

The ability to write clearly and effectively is key to communication, this set of skills enrich one's mental health. Poor written communication…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be…

— Ernest Hemingway

I want to write more and direct more, but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the…

— Benedict Samuel

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

— Charles Kuralt

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

“How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious…

— James A. Murphy

'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to…

— Jonathan Levine

“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How…

— Joan Didion

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's…

— Donald Miller

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until…

— John Irving

Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those…

— Edmund White

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really…

— Jewel

I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done…

— Sue Gardner

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

— Andy Gibb

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

— Gary Jennings

“Life is what you make it. But if you can't make it as you want it... write it.”

— Anonymous

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

— Carolyn Kizer

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard

“How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or seen anybody die?”

— Sylvia Plath

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

— J. D. Salinger

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.

— Frank Serpico

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

— Edward Gorey

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.

— Andre Previn

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

— Yiyun Li

If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.

— Gail Sher

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

— Edward Abbey