Write Quotes · Page 81

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

— Karin Slaughter

Blank paper at this time she will cry, I did not write anything in the last Letter

— Anonymous

“I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

— David Friedman

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I wanted to write picture music ever since I was a kid.

— Henry Mancini

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

— Bo Diddley

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

— Jonathan Evison

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will…

— David Schwimmer

“You have to write. You have to sit down and do it every day. Find your method, your motivation, your tenacity to…

— Catherine Cruzan

I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And…

— Eve Bunting

I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! -…

— Cynthia Ozick

“How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.”

— Lily Koppel

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.

— Charles Bock

Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person…

— William Zinsser

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a…

— David Rakoff

“Writing every day is very, very helpful, but set the bar at a place where you have no excuse: It doesn't matter…

— N.D. Wilson

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not.…

— Donald Miller

If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt,…

— Lisa Jakub

Our goal is to write memorable songs. We're not there yet, but we're getting closer. Each time we sit down to write,…

— Joel Madden

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write…

— Jackie Collins

The first thing you start with when you're trying to write something funny is it has to - it really has to…

— Paul F. Tompkins

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

— Billy Sherwood

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

— John Sentamu

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.

— Keren Woodward

“You will not publish 100% of the books you don’t write.”

— M. Kirin

I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

— David Liss

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

— Philip Roth

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

— Theo Van Gogh

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

— Kenneth Edmonds

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

— Carolyn Kizer

“We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.”

— J.R. Rim

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

— Andy Gibb

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

— Gary Jennings

“Life is what you make it. But if you can't make it as you want it... write it.”

— Anonymous