I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The thing is that every time they write in a romantic part for me, there'd always this inability for me to be… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Write something that you are comfortable with. Do not venture into something that you do not want to write about, because gradually,… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
