Write Quotes · Page 113

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

— L. J. Smith

“I write, therefore i am, and therefore do not need other's writing!”

— Rebecca Jane

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

To write is to look for very particular, specific points of view on reality.

— Olga Tokarczuk

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

— Michael Showalter

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

— Anthony J. Carson

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing.…

— Joseph Kanon

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will…

— Gary Shteyngart

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that…

— Walter Cronkite

I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where…

— Philippe Falardeau

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely…

— Kit Reed

I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes…

— Peter Heller

I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in…

— Terence Winter

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep…

— James Salter

I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed…

— Brian Selznick

A lot of times, somebody will say something and it will give you a good title. So you carry a pencil with…

— Gene Autry

We all just meet up and someone's house or the studio and we'll just jam and we'll lock into something that sounds…

— Mitch Lucker

I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I…

— Jami Attenberg

Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom's! And we have enough money…

— Jen Kirkman

I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in…

— John Searles

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character,…

— Scott Turow

“the only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

— Earl King

Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know?

— Ryan Gosling

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

— Nora Roberts

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

— Ernest Hemingway

Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.

— Talib Kweli

I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

— Gabriella Wilson

“I write, so that everyone else, can live. The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny”

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

— Cyril Connolly

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

— Anonymous

I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.

— Mitch Leigh

“And why not? I’ve always written what you asked me to write.”

— Betty Smith

I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.

— Jenny Zhang

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

— R. A. Salvatore

If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude.

— Jennifer Egan

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

— Jens Lekman