Write Quotes · Page 156

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

— Brett Favre

If you're 22 and got everything you want, what are you going to write about for the rest of your life?

— Nick Hornby

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

— Haruki Murakami

“Today ain't in the mood to write... btw my name is Stevy.”

— Deyth Banger

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

— Karl Kraus

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

— Emeli Sande

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

— Vachel Lindsay

More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's…

— Patti Smith

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All…

— Jesse Andrews

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything…

— James Frey

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.…

— Vikas Swarup

Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of…

— Rachel Joyce

When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that…

— Lynda Barry

I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people…

— Robbie Lawler

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can…

— Raymond Carver

“We are all writers from an early age. Most of what we write is nonfiction—essays for school, letters to friends, memoranda to…

— Sol Stein

I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to…

— Kirsten Vangsness

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to…

— Daniel Handler

I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There…

— Amish Tripathi

If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they…

— Raekwon

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

— Finn Andrews

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

— Suzy Menkes

I try not to go too crazy with what people write on social media, it's about trying to do my best.

— Miguel Almiron

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

— Boyle Roche

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

— Travis Barker

“I don't know how to write poetry, because I am the poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

— Ayn Rand

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

— Samuel Johnson

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

— William Goldman

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

— Ernest Hemingway

“The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.”

— Kay Kenyon

The only people who can truly know your story are the ones who helped you write it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

— Jon Lovett

“The one, who write is more matured than the one, who read.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

— Andrew Eldritch

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

— Diablo Cody