Write Quotes · Page 155

Sometimes I sit down and write, but I can write in my head line by line.

— Kodie Shane

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

— Sherwood Anderson

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

— Jerry Spinelli

“Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.”

— Carol Hovsepian

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

— Joshua Schachter

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

— W. E. B. Griffin

“You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know.”

— Grace Paley

I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it,…

— Brad Williams

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only…

— Joan Didion

“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

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to…

— Passenger

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there…

— Sadie Jones

Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular…

— Maxwell Perkins

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad…

— F. Sionil Jose

Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn…

— Meghan Trainor

I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done…

— Sue Gardner

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really…

— Jewel

Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those…

— Edmund White

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until…

— John Irving

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's…

— Donald Miller

“You will never learn how to write well if you don't learn how to edit.”

— Sarah Gerdes

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.

— Ian Dury

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

— Israel Horovitz

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

— Gillian Cross

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.”

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

— Amos Oz

“But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?”

— Joanna Penn

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

— Jesmyn Ward

I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

— Jason Reynolds

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

— John Lydon

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

— Jeffery Deaver

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

— Roxane Gay

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

— Ron Carlson