Write Quotes · Page 12

I really hate to write.

— Jack Kerouac

“Write to your fear.”

— Dorothy Allison

I write from my stomach.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

“I write what I like”

— Steve Biko

I love to write poetry.

— Shayne Ward

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

— Travis Scott

I love to write music and poetry.

— Naturi Naughton

We write to know we are not alone

— William Nicholson

I always write well in New York.

— David Bowie

“Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.”

— Miriam Elia

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

— Ernest Hemingway

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

— Victor Hugo

I like to write books and cause trouble.

— Heather Brooke

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

— Willie Nelson

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

— Ernest Hemingway

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

— Sue Monk Kidd

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

— Teresa of Avila

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

— Nia Vardalos

“Don't give up and just keep writing! If you write well...followers will come!

— Timothy Pina

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

— Jennifer Gilmore

When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all…

— Louis Sachar

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature… I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

— Ellen Glasgow

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute…

— Charles Stross

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If…

— Louis L'Amour

I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your…

— Jane Smiley

I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go…

— Taylor Sheridan

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to…

— Sara Shepard

Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and…

— Tom Petty

It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try…

— James Dickey

“It is a curious thing that at my age — fifty-five last birthday — I should find myself taking up a pen…

— H. Rider Haggard

I'm not writing anything out of some sense of obligation, or for marketing purposes. This is just what I prefer to write.…

— Hope Larson

“I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend,…

— Alysha Speer

“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own.…

— Julia Cameron

“It was then that I began to write. Writing helps when you can't talk to your friends; it wasn't that my friends…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to…

— Bonnie Raitt

Write about what makes you different.

— Sandra Cisneros

“Feel first, write second.”

— William Kenower

I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'

— Robert Trujillo