Write Quotes · Page 120

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

— Truman Capote

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

— Robert Walser

I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.

— David Cage

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

— Anonymous

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

— Kiran Desai

“Write for the love of storytelling, not the acclaim.”

— Airambooksie

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.

— Billie Eilish

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

— Dar Williams

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back…

— Donald McKay

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write…

— Robert Pinsky

When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many…

— Prince

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an…

— Marina and the Diamonds

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

— Reeve Carney

I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate…

— Anne Rice

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very…

— Jack Nicholson

If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers…

— Ray Kurzweil

I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to…

— Sue Grafton

When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The…

— Vikram Seth

I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and…

— Sam Shepard

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm…

— Gregory Maguire

“I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you…

— Angela Carter

I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the…

— Grant Morrison

I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I can't write when it's silent. But the music can't have lyrics.

— Marie Lu

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

— Lucinda Williams

I ain't got the biggest breast-s-s, but I write all the best disses.

— Lady Sovereign

“Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it!”

— K.D. Faerydae

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

— Jerome Kern

What we've learned is there's no right way to write a song.

— Susan Tedeschi

I sure love to write songs, but I'm not so sure of my voice.

— J. J. Cale

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

— Cecil Murphey

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

— Dan Brown

All my films are statements, especially when I write them.

— Kamal Haasan

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill

It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young).

— Philip Larkin