Write Quotes · Page 131

“In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world.”

— Ian McEwan

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

— John Irving

“She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.”

— Christopher Poindexter

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs

— Linus Torvalds

I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.

— Doris Lessing

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

— Enoch Powell

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

— Sia

“I will write about sadness,till the time i achieve my happiness.”

— sh sheeban

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil…

— Amish Tripathi

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when…

— Anthony Kiedis

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

— Nancy Horan

I read and write but my ideas don't go beyond the first draft. When they will, I will make it into a…

— Antara Mali

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to…

— Amanda Shires

If you've ever had your heart broken, it's like, once is enough - you can live a lifetime on that. Ya know?…

— Jessie Baylin

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a…

— Elizabeth Berg

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in…

— Peter O'Toole

Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life,…

— Stephen King

“When it's time for you to write how you want your life to go just write right before your pen run out…

— efiba progress

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've…

— Ben Schott

Growing up, if I didn't want to talk to someone about the way that I was feeling, I would go write instead.…

— Gracie Abrams

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for…

— Karen Traviss

I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to…

— George Saunders

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control -…

— Ashton Kutcher

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which,…

— Christopher Paolini

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

— Francis Bacon

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

— Georges Simenon

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

— Ann Patchett

“To strive in life; we must either read or write a story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!

— J. K. Rowling

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

— Gerry Beckley

They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.

— Michael Jackson

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

Live too short, let the past behind and write the future

— Tiwisetyawan

Whenever I meet someone who's talented, I always want to write something for them!

— Jeff Garlin

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

— David Mamet

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

— John Irving

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

— Richard LaGravenese