Write Quotes · Page 53

I write about living, not dying.

— John Diamond

Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

— Edmund Campion

Refuse to write your life and you have no life.

— Patricia Hampl

To write is a humiliation.

— Edward Dahlberg

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

— Boris Johnson

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

— Raymond Carver

I love to stay at home and write.

— Jack Antonoff

When revelation comes write it down.

— Richard G. Scott

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

— Kara Hayward

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

— Alejandro Zambra

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

— Anna Kamienska

“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

— Paul Auster

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

— Charles Krauthammer

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould

“When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.”

— Carla H. Krueger

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

— Callie Khouri

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do…

— Lawrence Durrell

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

— Sybille Bedford

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate…

— Curtis Mayfield

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There…

— Anurag Kashyap

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write…

— Tom Segura

To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book…

— Markus Zusak

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

— Ester Dean

I've found, as I've gotten older, it's really difficult to write on the road. There are so many distractions, so many people…

— Tracy Lawrence

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot.…

— Vikas Swarup

You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or…

— Joanne Harris

No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm…

— Paulo Coelho

“Write what you yourself would like to read, a story that will entertain and challenge you. If you try and follow the…

— J.D. Trafford

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write…

— Emma McLaughlin

Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples'…

— Eric S. Raymond

I try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the…

— Carolyn See

“As long as music survives, poetry will never die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

— Hiromi Uehara

Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.

— Bob Hicok

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

— George Pelecanos

There is no rule on how to write.

— Ernest Hemingway

I Will Write It And She Will Cum.

— Cv Pillay

“If I don't write it, they can't buy it.”

— Connie Cox

One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.

— Dan Chaon