Write Quotes · Page 151

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

— John Lanchester

My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'

— Casey Wilson

When you aren't doing too many films, people find other things to write about you.

— Arjun Kapoor

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

— Janet Evanovich

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

“Everything has been said already. But it hasn't been said the way you'd say it. So go ahead. WRITE.”

— Ksenia Anske

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be…

— Patricia Hampl

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.…

— Stephen King

I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it.…

— Greg van Eekhout

on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there…

— Stephen Chbosky

...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think…

— Flannery O'Connor

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing.…

— Elizabeth Strout

I try not to put myself in a box, so I'll write with anybody who wants to. I don't put limitations on…

— Thomas Rhett

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could…

— Margaret Wise Brown

I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in…

— Rosemary Mahoney

It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring…

— S. I. Hayakawa

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't…

— Miguel Syjuco

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out,…

— Zach Braff

“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need…

— Terry Tempest Williams

No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair…

— Edwidge Danticat

I like to say that I always have a whole book in front of me. I write down the major beats, the…

— Leigh Bardugo

“People live in my head. If they do anything interesting, don't worry, I write it down for ya.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.”

— Saul Bellow

Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.

— Alex Hirsch

“No one can teach you how to write. A writer writes, plain and simple. You improve by doing.”

— Scott Ciencin

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

— Victoria Justice

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

— Michael Arrington

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

— Peter Reading

“Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

— Bahya ibn Paquda

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

— Marya Hornbacher

In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.

— Gretchen Rubin

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

— Carl Sandburg

I took time off and realized that what I was lacking was the discipline in trying to write a script.

— Lee Isaac Chung

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

— Armando Iannucci

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

— Pat Conroy