Write Quotes · Page 8

“You are what you write.”

— Helvy Tiana Rosa

I over-write!

— Michaela Coel

I write very slowly.

— Carla Bley

I write my own tweets.

— Don Rickles

“Write in hashtags!”

— Steven Magee

I make time to write.

— Stanley Tucci

I write what I hear.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I write every single day.

— Jason Reynolds

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

— Raymond Carver

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

— Boris Johnson

“If I don't write it, they can't buy it.”

— Connie Cox

Our future is ours to write.

— Blaise Matuidi

One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.

— Dan Chaon

Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.

— Bob Hicok

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

— Hiromi Uehara

“As long as music survives, poetry will never die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

— Noah Cyrus

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

— Sara Sheridan

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write.”

— Samuel Johnson

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

— Faye Dunaway

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

— Ray Bradbury

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

— Fran Lebowitz

Melissa and I both say we don't write very good jokes.

— Ben Falcone

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I…

— Tom Stoppard

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east…

— John Updike

“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you…

— Dorothy Bryant

When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I…

— Jennifer Egan

I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again.…

— Horton Foote

I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines,…

— Max Tundra

I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with…

— Ben Howard

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm…

— Charles Saatchi

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation,…

— Helene Cixous

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If,…

— James Frey

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm…

— Eric Whitacre

I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to…

— Hoodie Allen

I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers,…

— Stephen King

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all…

— Kaki King

Songwriting is one thing that I have blessed to myself. It's a very personal thing for me, the business is very shared…

— William Clark Green