Write Quotes · Page 72

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills

My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.

— Martine Syms

I was a very naughty kid, who'd say 'I'd write tomorrow.'

— Sudha Murty

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

I've requested Anand Raghav to write a full length comedy for me.

— Delhi Ganesh

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

— Frank Murphy

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

“You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.”

— Saul Bellow

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves…

— Marguerite Duras

“It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to…

— Yael Shahar

People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able.…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output…

— Peter Hammill

It was not until I began to write a book called 'Light Years' that an editor really stepped in. The editor was…

— James Salter

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if…

— Kristen Schaal

I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a…

— Blake Shelton

I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who…

— Eric Wilson

“My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff…

— Jenny Han

I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian…

— Francine Rivers

It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be…

— Stephen Graham Jones

I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably,…

— Cassie Steele

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out…

— Cynthia Ozick

A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little…

— Jenny Offill

Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.

— Alex Hirsch

“No one can teach you how to write. A writer writes, plain and simple. You improve by doing.”

— Scott Ciencin

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

— Victoria Justice

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

“People live in my head. If they do anything interesting, don't worry, I write it down for ya.”

— Lauren DeStefano

When you aren't doing too many films, people find other things to write about you.

— Arjun Kapoor

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

— Janet Evanovich

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

— Shane Carruth

“Everything has been said already. But it hasn't been said the way you'd say it. So go ahead. WRITE.”

— Ksenia Anske

In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.

— Gretchen Rubin

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

— Marya Hornbacher

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

— Bahya ibn Paquda

“Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

— Michael Arrington

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck