Write Quotes · Page 59

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

— Michael R Dougherty

A hand cannot write on itself.

— Peter Greenaway

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

— Alan Jay Lerner

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

— Kate McKinnon

Never write a letter when you are angry.

— Nikhil Saluja

I just write when fear overtakes me.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Write or don't write. There is only try.”

— Kim Smith

My mother taught me how to write.

— Kesha

“you just write about sex and killing yourself and how you hardly ever went to school ..”

— The 1975

You write different songs when you're 16 or 17 to when you're 22 or 23.

— Luke Hemmings

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

— Mark Foster

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

— J. K. Rowling

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

— Anonymous

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

— Kathryn Stockett

I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission.

— Passenger

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

— Jennifer Egan

“When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to…

— Pat Conroy

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never…

— Jennifer Weiner

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no…

— Dorothy Parker

I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I…

— Shane McCrae

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn…

— Chris Van Allsburg

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character.…

— Nikki Grimes

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of…

— Jimmy Cliff

“Why do I write? Because, I am able to create wonders with a click of my keyboard. I turn my computer on,…

— Barbara Brooke

“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words…

— Bonnie Friedman

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or…

— Joseph O'Neill

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with…

— Neil Gaiman

I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best…

— Peter King

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent…

— Octavia Butler

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon…

— Michael Morpurgo

I write to find out about how the world sings.

— Jeanine Tesori

“Why just read the writing? Write the reading!”

— Jesse B. Booth

I write because I love doing it.

— Roxane Gay

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

— Rita Rudner

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.

— Keith Urban

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

— Dolly Parton

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz

At night I can write for hours.

— Lauren Conrad