Write Quotes · Page 136

Everything is practice. Every word you write and action you take is a chance to get better.

— Jeff Goins

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

— John Ashbery

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

— Charles Krauthammer

“When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

— Paul Auster

Sometimes I sit down and write, but I can write in my head line by line.

— Kodie Shane

“To write well, to write passionately, to be less inhibited, to be warmer, to be more self-critical, to recognize the power of…

— John Cheever

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out…

— George Saunders

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I,…

— Samuel Beckett

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I…

— Judy Blume

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are…

— Cecelia Ahern

But I'll never write another Missing You' again as long as I live. I hope that I'll write a good song, but…

— John Waite

Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write…

— Jens Lekman

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we…

— Helen Keller

The best way to learn to write is to read in the genre you might be interested in; then, you need to…

— Homer Hickam

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you…

— Brad Paisley

I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone,…

— Shonda Rhimes

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been,…

— Tom Stoppard

The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on…

— Neil Gaiman

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off…

— William Golding

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at…

— Glen Duncan

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

— Caroline Lawrence

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

— Sherwood Anderson

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Write when you least feel like it, Because that's when you write best.”

— Nema Al-Araby

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

— Cecelia Ahern

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

— Raymond Carver

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

— Gloria Estefan

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

— Evangeline Lilly

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

— Miranda Cosgrove

No matter where I go, I never write the setlist until I'm at the venue.

— Beth Hart

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

— Uzo Aduba

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

— Andrew Breitbart

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

— Susan Faludi

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...”

— John Geddes

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

— Tyler Perry