Write Quotes · Page 135

The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

— Michel de Montaigne

“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.”

— Will Shetterly

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot

I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.

— Caroline Leavitt

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

— Richard Ford

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

— Amy Winehouse

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that.…

— Del Shannon

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to…

— Nicole Holofcener

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad…

— Jack Kerouac

I take out my pen and paper. I'd write how much I love you. I'd write just what you make me do,…

— Francine Chiar

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful…

— Franz Wright

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do…

— Natalie Goldberg

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

— Kate Braverman

If I plan to write, I won't be able to write anything good. I just need to kind of jam and let…

— Shavo Odadjian

In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted…

— Rob Thomas

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I…

— James Rollins

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six…

— Lucinda Williams

In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws…

— Chuck Wendig

I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what…

— Henning Mankell

The problem with being a writer/director: unless you're really disciplined, you start adding projects, and you have to make time to make…

— Cary Fukunaga

Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself…

— Jack Heffron

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the…

— Colm Feore

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Three factors need to write: Inspiration, Motivation and Emotion. Let it flow from your soul and heart!

— Adrian Evans

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

— Anonymous

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

— Harry Mathews

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

— Margaret Atwood

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

— Anonymous

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

— Eyedea

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

— Wanda Jackson

“What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past. What you write today, will be echoed in the future.”

— Toba Beta

Women and their impact, good and bad. It makes men write songs. I write about relationships, basically.

— Ben Howard

“If you're going to write, you have to be open to possibility.”

— Richard Luciano

“I may have written this before, but I may not have written it as well, so I’ll write it again.”

— Jarod Kintz

“To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.”

— Susan Dudics-Dean aka Suzanne Quill

Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

— Ian Lurie