Write Quotes · Page 114

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

— Matt Berninger

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

— Noah Baumbach

I don’t think I write well—just better than anyone else,

— Philip Larkin

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

— Robert Bly

“If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.”

— Anne Rice

“I never thought I wanted to write. Never did I know I can either, until now.”

— C.A. Dimayuga

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

— Peter O'Toole

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's…

— Willow Smith

I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing…

— David McCullough

I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still…

— Shane Carruth

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I…

— Lisa Scottoline

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen…

— Ellen Goodman

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject…

— Tracy Kidder

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to…

— Michael Hastings

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I…

— Isabel Allende

I'm done with books for a while. They take a lot of time, and they take a lot out of you. Maybe…

— Brian Welch

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and…

— Bryan Greenberg

When I write a new draft, I don't like to feel I'm tied to any previous version. That's why I don't use…

— Lauren Groff

I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week.…

— Jesmyn Ward

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we…

— Maya Angelou

I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real…

— Patti Smith

I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily…

— Jennifer Saunders

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go…

— Brian Helgeland

I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.

— Vin Diesel

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes

— Harvey Pekar

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

— Henry Mancini

If you write for somebody that you know, then your job is so much easier.

— Jessica St. Clair

I read a lot of pilots and I've tried to write some of my own - it's very hard.

— Janelle James

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

— Maxim Gorky

I used to write from the time I was in school, and during college days too.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

— Sophie Rundle

“Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list.”

— Karen Salmansohn

“I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't.”

— Angeline Trevena

“When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.”

— Meg Rosoff

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

— Judy Blume

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

— Harlan Coben

The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly.

— Alexandre Desplat