Write Quotes · Page 60

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?

— Curtis Jackson

I need a distance to my characters when I write.

— Lena Andersson

You have to stop living in order to write.

— Martha Gellhorn

“If in doubt, write it out!”

— Gary M. Nelson

Too many people write books as a calling card.

— Simon Sinek

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

“Everything I write is a rebound.”

— Stuart Stutzman

“Think it. Write it. Sell it.”

— Dee J. Adams

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

— Laurie Simmons

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

— Keifer Thompson

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

— Young Thug

“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”

— D.E.M. Emrys

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

— Tom Stoppard

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

— Richard Hugo

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

— Brad Thor

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

— China Mieville

Write Your Diary daily, write you experiences, your feelings, your truth, your habits. And when You Read it after few years.. you…

— Chakshu Aggarwal

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very…

— Joss Whedon

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and…

— Anonymous

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A…

— Stanislaw Lem

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

— Joseph Joubert

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in…

— Ellie Goulding

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be…

— William Golding

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write…

— Per Petterson

Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate…

— Charles Duhigg

When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it…

— Brian Posehn

“My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth…

— Katie Fforde

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is…

— Patricia MacLachlan

Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they…

— Edwidge Danticat

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that…

— Ernest Hemingway

You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but…

— Mark Cuban

If you don't like my book, write your own.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Write till you run out of words...”

— A.S. Hashmi

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

— Alan Furst

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

— Mary Oliver

I write in a small office at home.

— Walter Dean Myers

“Every author does not write for every reader”

— Samuel Johnson

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

— Alice Mattison

“Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita