Write Quotes · Page 125

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke

“If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.”

— Sharon Delarose

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

— Nora Roberts

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

— Charles Bukowski

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

— Anthony Horowitz

I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.

— Christine McVie

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

— Sigrid

I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have.…

— John Goodman

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live…

— Clarice Lispector

“I can write, because writing—unlike choreography, architecture, or conquering kingdoms—is a thing you can do when you’re lonely and poor, and have…

— Caitlin Moran

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't…

— Tracy Chapman

When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it…

— Etan Cohen

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I…

— Deepa Mehta

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm…

— Charles Saatchi

I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with…

— Ben Howard

Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how…

— Robert Munsch

Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could…

— Lauren Myracle

You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it…

— Ali Smith

When somebody wants to write an article attacking a scoring system or the influence of wine writers, who's right in the cross…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

“I was thinking: to write and being a writer are two kind of diferrences things. To write is a please. Being a…

— Desi Puspitasari

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out,…

— Margery Allingham

Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write.…

— Julie Andrews

If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going…

— Maeve Binchy

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

— Stephenie Meyer

“First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.”

— RaeBeth McGee

I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about.

— James Acaster

In order to write about life first you must live it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I’m going to write the last chapter in his precious history. Right now.”

— Pittacus Lore

I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.

— Sara Shepard

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

— Danielle Trussoni

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

— Talib Kweli

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

— Chinua Achebe

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write…

— Mike Lowry

You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm.

— Chunky Pandey

“Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?”

— Jerome Charyn

You must become an expert on a product, service or anything you write about to really be effective.

— Joseph Sugarman

People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.

— Jeanne Phillips

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

— Cody Simpson