Write Quotes · Page 112

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

— bell hooks

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

— Dave Ulrich

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

— Lucy Hale

“whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you.”

— Lauren Oliver

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

— Christian Bauman

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

— Vera Nazarian

“If you write what you love, that is success, is it not?”

— Leslie Soule

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires

— Todd Barry

It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more.…

— Roxane Gay

Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole…

— Daniel Suarez

“I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I…

— Adrienne Rich

It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through…

— Christopher Darden

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want…

— Jennifer Egan

“When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.”

— P.S. Bartlett

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs…

— Vikram Seth

I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write…

— Topher Grace

Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words…

— Douglas Brunt

If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people…

— Caitlin Rose

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the…

— Louise Brooks

It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't…

— Ashton Shepherd

I am at the point of my life where I am realizing that I cannot write about the same shit forever. I…

— Needa Muy

Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,'…

— David Morrell

I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a…

— Eppu Nuotio

I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page…

— Elizabeth George

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

— Julie Foudy

I voted for you, and you couldn't even write me back.

— Aubrey

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

— Mary Gauthier

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

— Terry Bradshaw

Dialogue is the most fun to write. It's kind of like a tennis match.

— Sally Rooney

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

— Zadie Smith

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

— A. J. Liebling

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

— Alice Mattison

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

— William Lashner

I won't write a book. I haven't got a magnum opus in me.

— Nigel Pearson

Don't be quick to jump to conclusion without write Subject.

— Alexander John Jr

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore

I write from my heart, so everything I say, I say with force.

— Tech N9ne

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.”

— Jennifer Egan