Write Quotes · Page 7

I never wanted to do a documentary or write a book.

— Dave Clark

“When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things…

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a…

— Lesley Manville

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

— Miranda Lambert

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

— Ruskin Bond

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur…

— Richard Greenberg

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are,…

— Brian Selznick

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real…

— Matthew Ashford

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I…

— Jon Scieszka

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

— Marsha Norman

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is…

— Cynthia Ozick

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

— Andrea Arnold

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I…

— Andrae Crouch

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

— Louise Erdrich

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

— John Sentamu

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want…

— Aminatta Forna

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

— Cass McCombs

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

— Ne-Yo

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

— Seymour Hersh

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into…

— Steven James

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite…

— Lev Grossman