Write Quotes · Page 115

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

— A. J. Liebling

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

— Lisa Tuttle

“It is right to write and say what is right at the right time”

— Elijah Onyenmeriogu

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

— Dean Koontz

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

— Wayne Dyer

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

— Max Lucado

We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.

— Johnny Van Zant

“If I can't find a good book to read I write one myself.”

— Suz Korb

“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible”

— Roger Rosenblatt

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to…

— Sean Penn

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

— Jim Gaffigan

“You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation…

— Penelope Lively

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or…

— Elmore Leonard

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for…

— Marcel Achard

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to…

— Conor Oberst

I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't…

— Lauren Mayberry

There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and…

— Terry Brooks

I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in…

— Megan McCafferty

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger…

— Jane Hirshfield

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When…

— Wayne Dyer

The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the…

— Kitty Kelley

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or…

— Michael Morpurgo

I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in…

— Chuck Klosterman

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to…

— Salman Rushdie

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

— Jeff Lindsay

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

— David E. Kelley

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

— Billie Eilish

The first 3 person to comment on this Imma write something bout y'all

— Jay

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

— Simon Mawer

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

— Anonymous

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

— Joss Stone

I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

— Mitski

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

— Adrienne Rich

I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.

— Owen King

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

— Colum McCann

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle