Write Quotes · Page 50

I only write when listening to the music.

— Mod Sun

To write, you need to find what you love.

— D. J. MacHale

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

— Neel Mukherjee

If you wish to write, write.

— Epictetus

“I write more with the words I leave out.”

— Bryant McGill

I do like to write about dark subjects.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

“You don't need a big pen to write a tall story”

— Benny Bellamacina

We write our own songs, play our own instruments.

— Kevin Jonas

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

— David Friedman

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

Blank paper at this time she will cry, I did not write anything in the last Letter

— Anonymous

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

— Karin Slaughter

I write whether or not I'm planning to put it on the album.

— Alex G

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

— John M. Ford

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's…

— Antony Beevor

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to…

— Cecily Strong

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue…

— Peter Berg

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop…

— Neil Gaiman

“Take some time to write down what you see your children enjoying, what you see them learning and so on. However,”

— Pam Laricchia

“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”

— Felisberto Hernandez

The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men…

— Richard Flanagan

I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out…

— Glenn Howerton

“When I write, I go to live inside the book. By which I mean, mentally I can experience everything I’m writing about.…

— Tanith Lee

“For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence;…

— Martin Cosgrove

I don't like to just be simple. Even though some of my stuff can seem simple at times, I like to write…

— Gza

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and…

— William Shakespeare

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is…

— Cynthia Ozick

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest…

— D. J. MacHale

You don't write. You get out of the way.

— Sallie Tisdale

“we only read when you write”

— Ian Hunter

I am always trying to write.

— Joanna Newsom

I don't write songs, songs write me.

— Sammy Cahn

You cannot write well without data.

— George V. Higgins

“Poets only write the truth.”

— Shannon Lynette

“All of us who write need a good editor.”

— Sharon Langevin Crawford

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

— Brownie McGhee