Write Quotes · Page 14

“write to express not to empress ♥”

— Mina Qarabaghi

We can write idiots quite well.

— Bob Mortimer

I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

— Paulo Coelho

Write the story that only you can write.

— Francisco Arcellana

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

— Gore Vidal

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I write for myself. It's therapy.

— Dawn Richard

I always write the script by myself.

— Bong Joon-ho

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

— David Guterson

If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.

— Kate Green

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

— Johnny Vegas

People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.

— Sevyn Streeter

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

— Prince Philip

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

— Ansel Elgort

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.

— Kurt Vile

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Write Something To Suit Yourself, Many People Will Like It… And Write Something To Suit Everybody, Scarcely Anyone Will Care For It.

— Pacifiersucker

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who…

— Nicole Holofcener

I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to…

— Justin Vernon

I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have…

— Stephen Merchant

To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I have been searching for who I am for so long, when I write I found out who I am, I find…

— Glen Rambharack

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

A great deal of my mail comes from fans of the 'Oz' picture - fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious,…

— Margaret Hamilton

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour…

— Tim Vine

Most writer's blocks come from people second-guessing to the point where they get discouraged, and they just quit. For me, if I…

— Poo Bear

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only…

— Julia Glass

I've dedicated a lot of my life as a writer to understanding how to hear the divine voice, or the music of…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative.…

— Paul Weller

I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very…

— Lorraine Adams

I don't like to write the same song twice.

— Mark Foster

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

— Rita Dove

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

— William Goldman

I would love to take time off to write a book.

— Giuliana Rancic

“used to write her books.”

— Peter Robinson

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

— David Maraniss

I want to write music that will outlive me.

— Ray LaMontagne

I write in order to bear witness to life.

— Herta Muller