“Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.” — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me. — Jonathan Gold Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
When I get a new script, I write a record of how many costume and make-up changes I have. I cross-check them… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about. — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one… — Anita Pallenberg Copy Share Image
You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start with the beat. Sometimes I can write something down and it takes me a while to figure out how… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day's 2,000 words, then start on the next. As… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience. — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write. — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Frankly, I would never like to write an autobiography because my life is an open book. — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“Don’t write yourself off. If you don’t believe in yourself, you won’t be able to function.” — David Niven Copy Share Image
