Write Quotes · Page 47

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

— Kate McKinnon

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

— Alan Jay Lerner

A hand cannot write on itself.

— Peter Greenaway

I could never write a proper party song.

— Lauv

“My wife said "Mike, just shut up and write.”

— Michael R Dougherty

“I write what I like to read.”

— Johnny Worthen

“Educate thyself through reading”

— Ann Shannon

To write I have to wake up at 5 A.M.

— Rachel Sennott

I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.

— Mitch Leigh

“And why not? I’ve always written what you asked me to write.”

— Betty Smith

I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.

— Jenny Zhang

If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude.

— Jennifer Egan

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

— R. A. Salvatore

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

— Jens Lekman

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

— Matt Berninger

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and…

— Joy Williams

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

— Robert Knepper

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily.…

— Walter Mosley

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the…

— Maya Angelou

I write by myself and then deliver the song. Everybody knows, 'Leave Ester alone when she's in her zone.' Give me a…

— Ester Dean

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or…

— Patrick Modiano

Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person…

— James Woods

“So rather than bring you sorrow, I write to refresh you and pass along a few things I have learned over the…

— Brett Champan

I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go…

— Ruth Ware

I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my…

— Lee Kelly

Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept…

— Mona Simpson

Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down,…

— Daniil Kharms

“It’s a great day to write a best-seller.”

— Buffy Andrews

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

— Lisa Jewell

“You give me the duty to write about love”

— Nicola An

You write like you're in love.

— Anonymous

By writing, you learn to write.

— Samuel Johnson

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

— Thomas Hobbes

I write what I would like to read.

— Kathleen Norris

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

— David Brin