Write Quotes · Page 7

“Writing the good write!”

— J. W. Zulauf

I read and write a lot.

— Kunal Kapoor

I write poems.

— Bill Ward

I like to write poetry.

— Rebecca Ferguson

I prefer type than write

— Pipim Prima

I write in the studio.

— Macy Gray

“I write for the unborn.”

— Hortense Caruthers

“Why I Write,”

— Thomas E Ricks

“When All Else Fails, Just Write.”

— E.N. Hardy

I write songs about what I go through.

— Taylor Swift

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

— Janet Malcolm

If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku.

— H. W. Brands

When revelation comes write it down.

— Richard G. Scott

Refuse to write your life and you have no life.

— Patricia Hampl

To write is a humiliation.

— Edward Dahlberg

I love to stay at home and write.

— Jack Antonoff

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

— Sting

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

— Marc Almond

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write? Now, write that book.”

— M. Kirin

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

— Oscar Wilde

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

— Richard Peck

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

— S. E. Hinton

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to…

— Lydia Davis

“Write something that not only you will always remember, but everyone that reads it will cherish it. You will make sure that…

— Orlandito Gonzalez

“Anyone can write good sex scenes. All you need is some basic knowledge of anatomy, the right vocabulary and some choice reading…

— Claire Kent

“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a…

— Ally Condie

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

— Alison Moyet

“Your life is a book. Some have written half-way, some, three-quarter way. You have the opportunity to write and rewrite the book…

— Nike Campbell-Fatoki

To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the…

— Gardner Dozois

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.'…

— Vikram Seth

I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked…

— David Duchovny

You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry…

— Joe Klein

“I write because it’s a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don’t understand. The act of…

— Jodi Picoult

I try to keep my eyes and ears open all the time for the bones of my next song: things people say,…

— Will Kimbrough

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that…

— John Connolly

I tend to get lonely a lot. That is probably why I try to write about different things when I am alone.…

— Yunho

One lesson I learned the hard way, early in my career, was that if I tried to write to be smart or…

— George Saunders