Write Quotes · Page 3

You can't write drunk.

— Derek Walcott

I write every day.

— Anonymous

I love to read and write.

— Kunal Kapoor

I do write my own stuff.

— Sabrina Claudio

Write what you know.

— Anonymous

Write a list of targets.

— Black Veil Brides

Write your own stories.

— Gareth Southgate

“I write for justice.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

— Govinda

Until you know who you are you can’t write.

— Salman Rushdie

We read often with as much talent as we write.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.

— Mark Carwardine

I have a lot of books I want to write.

— Douglas Brinkley

“The only way to learn to write is to write.”

— Peggy Teeters

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

— Chanda Kochhar

I never wanted to write on a staff. I wanted to perform my work.

— Jason Nash

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

— W. C. Sellar

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

— S.J. Watson

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction.

— Michael Connelly

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

— Sylvia Day

I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

— J. K. Rowling

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.

— Macaulay Culkin

I want to write my daughter something about how much I love her and what I would want to say to her…

— Ali Wong

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid…

— John Updike

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve…

— Donald Margulies

“When I write, I can see things that I can't otherwise see, and I feel things that I can't otherwise feel.”

— Shauna Niequist

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act…

— Pearl Cleage

“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another." -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in "A Moveable Feast.”

— Ernest Hemingway

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity,…

— R. S. Thomas

I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in…

— Megan McCafferty

There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and…

— Terry Brooks

I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go…

— Brian Helgeland

I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week.…

— Jesmyn Ward

I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real…

— Patti Smith

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we…

— Maya Angelou

When I write a new draft, I don't like to feel I'm tied to any previous version. That's why I don't use…

— Lauren Groff

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird…

— Anna Quindlen