Write Quotes · Page 68

“Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.”

— A.D. Posey

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

— Jack Bickham

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

— O. Henry

“Write and read and you shall be good to succeed.”

— Emma Coray

When you want to write well, wake up at 5 A.M.

— Susannah Cahalan

Don't talk about it; write.

— Ray Bradbury

I don't write letters anymore.

— George H. W. Bush

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

— Max Lucado

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

— Tarja Turunen

I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.

— Gloria Emerson

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The text you write must prove to me that it desires me.”

— Roland Barthes

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

— Alastair Reynolds

That urge you get to write no one gives a shit on someones status.

— Becca

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

— Youth Lagoon

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things…

— John Fuller

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how…

— Deb Caletti

The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing…

— Dean Wareham

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording…

— Grandmaster Flash

“If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things…

— Benjamin Franklin

When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices…

— Nick Cave

It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a…

— Cynthia Voigt

Although I don't come from a musical background, I was given piano lessons along with my sisters, but I wasn't what you…

— Vonda Shepard

At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed…

— Sylvia Plath

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the…

— Keith Urban

“This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The…

— Julia Glass

I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I've been working on. It's like being asked…

— Charles Soule

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why…

— Brenda Ueland

“Because there are a million thoughts that never sleep and a million more that wake up as each second passes by... And…

— Sanhita Baruah

All my life, I've wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy…

— Scott Turow

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

— Cole Vosbury

“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

I was always afraid to write music.

— Dory Previn

I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.

— The D.O.C

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

— Randy Newman

I would love to write a Broadway musical.

— Seth Macfarlane

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

— Virginia Woolf

“Professional writers write to fit”

— Pamela Glass Kelly