Write Quotes · Page 123

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

— Richard K. Morgan

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

— Anonymous

“They don't let people see what I write because I write what I see”

— Blas De Otero

“I work to eat, but I write to live. -Nakia R. Laushaul”

— Nakia R. Laushaul

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

— Ruskin Bond

“It doesn't have to be 'just right' Just Now...JUST WRITE!”

— Sam Westhoek

“Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.”

— Tiffany Reisz

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a…

— Dar Williams

“You don't need paper to write a letter. You can write letters in your head" -Ruby "What do you mean?" -Virgil "You…

— Erin Entrada Kelly

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm…

— Anonymous

Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;…

— Tom Stoppard

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

— Evangeline Lilly

I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three…

— J. K. Rowling

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me…

— Brian K. Vaughan

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book…

— Mario Batali

Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm…

— Simon Beaufoy

It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or…

— Kevin Keck

“Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it…

— Jack London

Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making…

— Barry Schwartz

“I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of…

— Oscar Wilde

I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the…

— Sherman Alexie

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

— Carol Shields

I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.

— Lucrecia Martel

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

— Rick Riordan

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to…

— Hisham Matar

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

I didn't know how to write comics. I had to teach myself.

— Marjorie Liu

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

— Philip James Bailey

“If you have time to breathe, you have time to write.”

— Donalie Beltran

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

— James Salter

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

— Kit Reed

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

— Douglas Wilson

I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.

— Amanda Shires

I don't write a synopsis, I don't write a treatment. I write scene by scene.

— Celine Sciamma

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George