Write Quotes · Page 142

“No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!”

— Chrys Fey

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

— John Cheever

“I worked and now I can write, Experience is everything.”

— Andrew M. Gallagher

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

— Virginia Woolf

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

For me, I definitely like quiet; I like to write alone.

— Taylor Goldsmith

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

— Marianne Moore

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

— Janeane Garofalo

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end…

— Conor Oberst

I just have certain interests in different things, and they inspire me to write. I would encourage aspiring artists or MCs or…

— Gza

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to…

— Tim Gane

“He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be…

— Kate DiCamillo

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's…

— Leo Tolstoy

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start…

— Dani Shapiro

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing…

— Mark Twain

With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well…

— Celeste Ng

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing…

— Julianna Baggott

For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really…

— Jo Nesbo

God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those…

— Donald Wuerl

I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books…

— Megan McCafferty

My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big…

— Gin Wigmore

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.…

— King Krule

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed…

— Charles de Lint

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean…

— Rachael Ray

I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

— John Gimlette

I shouldn't say bad stuff about illiterate people in case they hear me. In future, I'll write it down.

— Anonymous

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

— Aaron Carter

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

— Robert Sheckley

It's dangerous to write people off just because they've been arrested.

— Raymond Kelly

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

— Mariah Carey

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

— Peter Frampton

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

— Hunter Hayes

Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

— Tim O'Brien

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes

Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to…

— Gertrude Stein

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

— Gertrude Stein

I write tunes about what people say, whatever they say.

— Fats Domino

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

“When I can’t write I read. When I can’t read I sleep. And when I can’t sleep I write.”

— Jarod Kintz