Write Quotes · Page 48

When I write, I try to become different characters.

— Billie Eilish

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.

— Sarah Manguso

I would like to write a play.

— Tim Rice

I essentially write for myself.

— Leon Uris

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

— John Cleese

I like to direct what I write.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.

— Ronald D. Moore

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

— Noah Baumbach

I don’t think I write well—just better than anyone else,

— Philip Larkin

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

— Robert Bly

To write is to look for very particular, specific points of view on reality.

— Olga Tokarczuk

The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

— Anthony J. Carson

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

— Michael Showalter

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

— Earl King

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

— Nora Roberts

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What…

— Neil Gaiman

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write…

— Astrid Lindgren

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself.…

— Joan Didion

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite…

— Rudy Rucker

The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be…

— Chuck Cannon

Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.

— Mark Foster

I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to…

— Julia Holter

I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as…

— John Darnielle

I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in…

— Miguel Syjuco

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really…

— Martin Gore

I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much…

— Ben Schott

Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have…

— Mary Schapiro

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not…

— Charles Bukowski

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two…

— E. L. Konigsburg

“If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It…

— James Hampton

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

— Zane Grey

“We are the thoughts we choose to keep.”

— A.D. Posey

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We do write our own music.

— Grace Chatto

“no paper with which to write. Instead,”

— Adam Burch

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

— Francoise Sagan

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

— Doris Lessing

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

— Moliere