Write Quotes · Page 82

“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

— Tony Earley

“Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?”

— Theresa Rebeck

“If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“You don't write what you know you write to find out what you don't know”

— Patricia Hemphall

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

— Jose Feliciano

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

— George R. R. Martin

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

— Irving Berlin

Don't let other people define you. It's not their life; it's not their story. Live your own life, and write your own…

— June Days

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a…

— Rick Springfield

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to…

— Al Madrigal

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to…

— Gretchen Rubin

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

— Anton Chekhov

I'm like anyone else. I'm sure people who write, paint or whatever. They think whatever they just did is their best.

— Jani Lane

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be…

— Ernest Hemingway

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I…

— Larry Gelbart

I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do…

— Ryan Adams

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to…

— Esperanza Spalding

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got…

— Jodi Picoult

I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can…

— Christopher Durang

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano…

— Melodie Ramone

“I know I should be able to find a story in anything. Good screenwriters can pull interesting films out of the asinine…

— Melissa Keil

I don't love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I've…

— Ray Martin

I think when you write a script, you can't help but pick up on what is happening in the press at that…

— Eran Creevy

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

— Joss Whedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

— Richard Avedon

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

— Neil Gaiman

Naw, I don't write raps down. All my raps come off the top of the head.

— Yo Gotti

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

— Perry Farrell

Tolkien didn't just write 'The Hobbit,' he created a whole world.

— Peter Hambleton

The only way I know how to write is socially and getting immediate feedback on my phone.

— Anna Todd

I like to write to decompress - that's very satisfying to me.

— Alisyn Camerota

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

— Billy Sherwood

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

— Studs Terkel

Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.

— Nick Carter

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman