Write Quotes · Page 149

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

— Tarja Turunen

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.

— Gloria Emerson

“The text you write must prove to me that it desires me.”

— Roland Barthes

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

— Toni Morrison

Ever since 'The Goldbergs' began, one of my dreams was to write a homage to 'Highlander.'

— Adam F. Goldberg

Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.

— Mitch Lucker

“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I…

— Gabor Maté

“Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let…

— Sarra Cannon

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as…

— Rachel Bloom

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees…

— Richard Powers

If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream…

— Summer Sanders

“Every day there are countless reasons why it’s not a good day to write. Ignore those reasons and write anyway. Inspiration seldom…

— John Burley

“If we do not determine to aspire to that which we write about, we should rid ourselves of every single sheet of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys…

— Isla Fisher

When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make…

— Ruth Ozeki

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved…

— Danielle Steel

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too…

— Lawrence Osborne

Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this…

— Steven Saylor

“Personal accounts flow from the heart and tend to be the most difficult to write. It's nearly impossible to remove the emotional…

— Javier A. Robayo

I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored.…

— Joan Didion

“Whenever I write first drafts, I like to maximize the possibility of f-ups, mistakes, mis-written words, digressions, crazy changes in tone, etc.…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“I deal with writer’s block by lowering my expectations. I think the trouble starts when you sit down to write and imagine…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

— Jami Attenberg

Why do I always write about love when it seems like love has written me off?

— Anonymous

“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”

— Lettie Prell

“Write about daily life as you would write history.”

— FLAUBERT

“After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it”

— Spike Milligan

Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.

— David Means

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

— Jessie Baylin

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

— Jon Scieszka

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

— Bei Dao

That urge you get to write no one gives a shit on someones status.

— Becca

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

— Youth Lagoon

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

“I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it”

— William Meikle

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

— Hugh Leonard

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

— Bob Dylan