Write Quotes · Page 49

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

“I will use a flower petal for paper, And write you the sweetest letter,”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in…

— Kamand Kojouri

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human…

— Paul Harding

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at…

— Trey Parker

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

— Cecelia Ahern

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior…

— Elizabeth Strout

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

— Blake Bailey

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this:…

— Carol Ann Duffy

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are…

— Morris Gleitzman

I took time off and realized that what I was lacking was the discipline in trying to write a script.

— Lee Isaac Chung

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a…

— Kurt Busiek

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write…

— Jonah Peretti

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

— Kathy Acker

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously…

— Dev Hynes

I definitely script things out. I definitely write things down and try to write jokes. Often, they're terrible. I often write terrible,…

— Michael Ian Black

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

— Mark Waid

I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on…

— Bill O'Reilly

I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have.

— Caroline Leavitt

“Live in the now and the how will take care of itself.”

— A.D. Posey

You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But…

— Dan Hill

I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

— Andrea Hirata

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back…

— Donald McKay

I want to write books.

— La La Anthony

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to…

— Michael Hastings

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

— Bob Beamon

I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell…

— Rita Mae Brown

Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive…

— Benny Blanco

The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never…

— Chris Van Allsburg

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to…

— Idina Menzel

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

— Richard Avedon

I write very slowly.

— Carla Bley

I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write…

— Erin Morgenstern

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music,…

— Jane Hirshfield