Write Quotes · Page 144

I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.

— Harlan Ellison

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

— Elizabeth Reyes

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

— Rob Walton

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

— Francis Chan

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

— Ayana Mathis

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

— Anonymous

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

— P. G. Wodehouse

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

— Taylor Swift

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me,…

— Truman Capote

I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands…

— John Shelby Spong

“A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated…

— Henry Miller

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

— Natalie Goldberg

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my…

— Mario Benedetti

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close,…

— Anne Michaels

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and…

— Paul Schrader

I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew…

— David Leslie Johnson

Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted…

— Daniel Quinn

If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind…

— Janet Morris

If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than…

— Corey Taylor

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I'm not aware of a cadence when writing, but I hear it after. I write in longhand, and that helps. You're closer…

— Elmore Leonard

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your…

— Welwyn Wilton Katz

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

— John Twelve Hawks

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

— Gary Paulsen

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

— Lorrie Moore

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

— Blueface

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

— Bryce Dessner

I want to write about my experiences since 'Speedbumps.'

— Teri Garr

“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”

— D.E.M. Emrys

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

— Tom Stoppard

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

— Richard Hugo

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

— Laurie Simmons

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

— Keifer Thompson

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

— Young Thug

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

— Joan Baez

I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.

— LP

“The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"...”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

— Neil Gaiman