Write Quotes · Page 4

Don't write for money.

— William T. Vollmann

I write manically.

— Robert Ben Garant

I only write in blue ink.

— Kat Graham

I write-down to speak-up.

— Anonymous

I write for my people.

— Lena Waithe

I write all the time.

— Jean Marsh

Write first, worry later.

— David Farr

“I write, what I imagine”

— Lilian Quirino

I think artists should really write more.

— Gza

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

— E. B. White

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.

— Craig Thompson

I don't really write songs anymore.

— Justin Vernon

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

— Ray Bradbury

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

— James Dickey

I'm yelling in my mind as I write a tweet.

— Shaun King

“I am, therefore I write.”

— George Snyder

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

— Jane Yolen

It's just wonderful to be able to write about what my characters are thinking.

— Ruth Jones

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

— Colin Quinn

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how…

— Anthony Trollope

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

— Andrew Vachss

I like to write about characters who are conflicted.

— Jed Mercurio

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

— Mack Wilberg

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

— Barry Hannah

Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get…

— Big Sean

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making…

— Annie Fellows Johnston

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway…

— Willard R. Espy

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is…

— Siegfried Lenz

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in…

— Katherine Paterson

You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of…

— Jason Spezza

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

“Advice to friends. Advice to fellow mothers in the same boat. "How do you do it all?" Crack a joke. Make it…

— Rebecca Woolf

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages,…

— Jeremy Davies

I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel…

— David Liss

“I write to express myself, I write to be a voice for those who can not speak I write to inspire change…

— Criss Tareyton

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist,…

— Tom Sizemore

“This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae — my attempt to show how one writer was…

— Stephen King

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes…

— Jane Siberry

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of…

— Ornette Coleman