Write Quotes · Page 129

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

— Nikki Giovanni

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.

— Jincy Willett

“Perhaps tomorrow I would actually put pen to paper.”

— Ruta Sepetys

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

— Philip Roth

“You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head.”

— James Ellison

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

— Terry Tempest Williams

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

— Lzzy Hale

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

— Saul Griffith

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue…

— Michael Arrington

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

— Loretta Lynn

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love,…

— Melissa Pritchard

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you…

— Marianne Williamson

There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

— Nikki Giovanni

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes…

— Robertson Davies

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of…

— Iain Banks

I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures…

— Jeff Tweedy

I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch,…

— Rob Thomas

“write whatever comes into your head, as fast as you can type, without reference to outlines, notes, data, books or any other…

— Howard S. Becker

I've never been able to write for myself. I was doing a lot. I produced The Green, I wrote it - I…

— Paul Marcarelli

Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because…

— Lucinda Williams

You sit down in the morning on your own to write something. You get to the end of the day and it's…

— Dan Mazer

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months…

— Linda Sue Park

I'm writing what I want to write. But it's almost an act of rebellion on my part. Because as a person, I've…

— Tama Janowitz

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books.…

— Natalie Goldberg

I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.

— Judy Garland

If you can write a single line of your own today.. then you can write other tomorrow as well.. :P :P

— Aamir Sheikh

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

— Wallace Stegner

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

— Dani Shapiro

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

— Dean Koontz

To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.

— Michael Morpurgo

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

— John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

Just write what you love and what a movie you'd like to see.

— Stuart Blumberg

I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about.

— Tom Stoppard

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

— Jade Bird

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

— Stone Gossard

“Write this letter or we'll put you in a home, grandma.”

— Meg Cabot

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

— Martin Luther

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

— Steve Winwood

Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

— William Carlos Williams