Write Quotes · Page 71

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

There's a new grievance every day to write about.

— Aubrie Sellers

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

— John Dryden

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

— John Galsworthy

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

— Paul McCartney

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

— Courtney Barnett

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

— Anonymous

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

— Madi Diaz

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

— Jennifer Egan

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

— Ernest Gaines

“I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.”

— Lenore Appelhans

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is…

— Sally Rooney

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves…

— Siegfried Lenz

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird…

— Jason Mraz

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that…

— Felicia Day

There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've…

— Sylvia Day

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not…

— Melissa Bank

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other…

— Vita Sackville-West

What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why…

— Mark Manson

I think that's why I wanted to write about seventh grade. I'd say seventh grade is a time when kids are really…

— Rebecca Stead

I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years.…

— Zadie Smith

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for…

— Brian Wilson

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that…

— Henry Miller

“The way you get good ideas is to do two things: 1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a…

— James Altucher

'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman…

— Katrina Law

“I love to write. It's all I do.”

— Ray Bradbury

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

— Sara Paretsky

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

— Michael McKean

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type. John Le Carre

— John Le Carre

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

— Per Petterson

I consider myself a bit of a comedian. I write a lot of humorous songs.

— Brad Paisley

If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't.

— Denise Duhamel