Write Quotes · Page 32

“I write stories, because I want to read them.”

— A.E. Croft

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

— Ray Bradbury

At night I can write for hours.

— Lauren Conrad

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

— Keith Urban

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

— Dolly Parton

I write because I love doing it.

— Roxane Gay

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

— Rita Rudner

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker

“The best antidote to writer's block is...to write.”

— Henriette Anne Klauser

“If you want to write, write. It’s as simple as that.”

— K.D. Green

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

— Margaret Haddix

“You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.”

— Nancy M. Malone

Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.

— Sarah Dessen

“In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.”

— Slicktor Victor Robinson

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

— Michael Franks

I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still…

— Shane Carruth

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I…

— Lisa Scottoline

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen…

— Ellen Goodman

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject…

— Tracy Kidder

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to…

— Michael Hastings

Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it;…

— Tom Stoppard

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

— Evangeline Lilly

“Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't…

— Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish.…

— Juanes

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful…

— Michael Cadnum

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response.…

— Susan Sontag

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is…

— Joy Williams

I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each…

— Morris Gleitzman

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a…

— Gary Reilly

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally…

— Jess Walter

“Why just read the writing? Write the reading!”

— Jesse B. Booth

I write to find out about how the world sings.

— Jeanine Tesori

Someone ought to write a novel about me,

— Catherynne M. Valente

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

— Donald Miller

I write books to find out about things.

— Rebecca West

“When I write, my soul sings.”

— Melissa Marsh

My twenties were a write-off.

— Sarah Lancashire

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

— Joan Didion