Write Quotes · Page 141

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

— George R. R. Martin

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.

— Maxim Gorky

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

— Jonah Goldberg

“I write because there are things in me that cannot die.”

— Sanober Khan

“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.”

— William Faulkner

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

— T. S. Eliot

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want…

— Clint Bowyer

“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for…

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard…

— Mark Kozelek

I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are…

— Sam Cooke

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out…

— Pico Iyer

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect…

— Ngaio Marsh

I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write.…

— Tony Gaskins

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I…

— Ruskin Bond

I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm…

— Lorde

I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock"…

— Arthur Bradford

I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there,…

— Eve Bunting

“GIRL, write YOUR book dammit. Who cares what people think? If writers in the past cared what other people thought we'd still…

— Madeline Sheehan

I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter,…

— Roxane Gay

When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant,…

— Robin McKinley

Write from the heart, what has meaning to you personally; have the patience and discipline to sit down and do it every…

— Charles de Lint

Yes, I receive fan mail. One of my favorite things to do is sit down and read the letters people write. It's…

— Marisa Miller

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

— Laurence Fox

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

— Cecelia Ahern

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

— James Mercer

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”

— Elizabeth Reyes

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

— Winona Ryder

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

— Henry David Thoreau

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

— James M. Cain

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

When I write songs, I write from a lot of perspectives.

— Goldlink

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

— Lucinda Williams

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

— Oscar Isaac

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

— Stanley Cavell

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

— Sylvia Plath

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

— Dorothy Fields

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz