Write Quotes · Page 130

I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

— Jim Goad

“The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.”

— Terry Lander

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

— John Ashbery

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

— Desmond Dekker

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

— Joan Didion

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

— Ray Bradbury

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

— Leon Uris

Some songwriters can just have a notebook and write, write, write. I can't do it like that. I gotta listen to a…

— Darrelle Revis

“It's easy to write upcoming scenes in books and television shows. Trusting God to write them in real life is a lot…

— Janice Thompson

Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you…

— Warren Ellis

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For…

— Reif Larsen

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very…

— Todd Rundgren

I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to…

— Gza

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had…

— Anne Roiphe

I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because…

— Anthony Burgess

I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them,…

— Dee Rees

I used to carry a notebook to the studio. I don't do that no more 'cause I don't have the time to…

— Nas

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did…

— Michael Hirst

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is…

— Colin Quinn

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when…

— Elizabeth Strout

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book.…

— David Cage

Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write.…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about…

— Stacey Abrams

“You're everything I write about in my songs, but can never have.”

— Abbi Glines

I write first thing in the morning, about 360 days a year.

— James Patterson

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

— Sandra Cisneros

You don't have to be a criminal to write about fraud!

— Ravi Subramanian

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

— Jennifer Egan

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

— John Deacon

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

— Allen Ginsberg

I'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini, and one for Bellini.

— Mikis Theodorakis

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

— Winston Churchill

“I don't claim to be a great author, but I do write from the heart.”

— Teri Heyer

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

— Joseph O'Neill

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

— Stephen King

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I never set out to write a script that is 'topical.'

— Steven Knight