Write Quotes · Page 41

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

— Joan Didion

I write in order to belong.

— Elena Poniatowska

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Write what you want, everything else is gravy”

— Padraic Gyatt

Don't write about that which you don't know.

— Amos Oz

I write because I love doing it.

— Roxane Gay

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

— Rita Rudner

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

— Jesse B. Booth

I used to write from the time I was in school, and during college days too.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.

— Anonymous

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

— Joss Stone

I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

— Mitski

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

— Adrienne Rich

I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.

— Owen King

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are…

— Kate DiCamillo

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words…

— Svetlana Alexievich

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in…

— Joshua Radin

I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are…

— Carice van Houten

I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an…

— Jane Goldman

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a…

— Nic Pizzolatto

As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of…

— Piri Thomas

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your…

— Jerry Pournelle

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have…

— Orson Scott Card

I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been able to write back…

— Troian Bellisario

I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When I got out of high school, I thought, 'I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this…

— Gregg Allman

I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good…

— Fiona Apple

I write to find out about how the world sings.

— Jeanine Tesori

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

When you're rich you don't write checks.

— Randy Moss

And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

— Alexander Pope

I write really well on the road.

— Pam Houston