Write Quotes · Page 46

I'm not entirely sure why I write.

— Sarah MacLean

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

— Judy Blume

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

— George Crabbe

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“I could write more, but that is all that matters.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I love to write...and so I do...”

— William Petersen

“If you get the urge, then write about it.”

— Terry Brooks

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

— Sara Paretsky

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

— Zadie Smith

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

— A. J. Liebling

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

— Alice Mattison

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

— William Lashner

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

— Cyril Connolly

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

— Anonymous

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of…

— Aimee Bender

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because…

— Betty Smith

I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes,…

— James Patterson

I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how…

— Tink

I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

— Jenny Downham

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to…

— Katherine Mansfield

I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of…

— Esperanza Spalding

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up…

— George Plimpton

When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long…

— Linda Sue Park

I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song,…

— John Mellencamp

If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing…

— Robert Mark Kamen

I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as…

— Amanda Hocking

My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process.…

— Kumail Nanjiani

When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in…

— Tom Barbash

Part of the reason I'm writing it is to try to figure out what that is myself. It's not like I came…

— Phil Klay

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How…

— Joss Whedon

“I love to write. It's all I do.”

— Ray Bradbury

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

— John Galsworthy

There's a new grievance every day to write about.

— Aubrie Sellers

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

— John Dryden

“Write or don't write. There is only try.”

— Kim Smith

My mother taught me how to write.

— Kesha

I just write when fear overtakes me.

— Fran Lebowitz

Never write a letter when you are angry.

— Nikhil Saluja