Write Quotes · Page 127

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

— Emma McLaughlin

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

— Tracy Letts

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

— Elfriede Jelinek

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

— Melanie Benjamin

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

— Kerry King

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

— Steve Buscemi

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work

— Gay Talese

The best songs I've written tend to 'write themselves' in some ways.

— Jelly Roll

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

— Alison Moyet

To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the…

— Gardner Dozois

“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a…

— Ally Condie

“Anyone can write good sex scenes. All you need is some basic knowledge of anatomy, the right vocabulary and some choice reading…

— Claire Kent

Don't get hung up on the size. If you feel bad about yourself because a 12 is what fits, take a Sharpie,…

— Stacy London

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and…

— Aimee Bender

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some…

— Warren Ellis

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the…

— August Wilson

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And…

— John Wozniak

I write in a bunch of different ways, but my favourite way is to walk around my neighbourhood at ridiculous hours, like…

— Thomston

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting.…

— Michael Morpurgo

I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other…

— Allison Joseph

It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I…

— Rod Serling

“There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I…

— Jill Sobule

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

— David Grossman

You can only really write about what you know about.

— John Singleton

“I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about" "You could write about us”

— Stephen Chbosky

“Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.”

— Mo

The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

— Stephen McCauley

“I write for the love of writing, and to tell a story, nothing more, nothing less.”

— Ron Parham

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

— Clifford Geertz

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

— Joss Whedon

“Sometimes you just have to hold each other’s hands and walk through it all.”

— A.D. Posey

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

— Constantin Brancusi

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

— Eudora Welty

I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.

— Ehud Barak

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

— Ernest Gaines

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write…

— Adam Jones

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

— Anonymous