Write Quotes · Page 84

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

— Anonymous

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

— Tom Waits

I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.

— Philip K. Dick

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.

— Michel Faber

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

— Mike Stoller

“The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.”

— John Gardner

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Write the way you want to, not the way you think you should.”

— Nicola J. McDonagh

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to…

— Anthony Doerr

I'd always rather spec something and just write it. Because when you're pitching something that isn't even on a page yet, it…

— Cord Jefferson

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never…

— Elizabeth Berg

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

— Sudha Murty

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

— Ronald Frame

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I…

— Anonymous

“In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does…

— Aaron Sorkin

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself…

— Rachel Johnson

Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think…

— David Guterson

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong,…

— Virginia Henley

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away…

— Jennifer Egan

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I…

— Sophie Kinsella

Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will…

— Po Bronson

My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down…

— Bonnie Tyler

I love to write but it lays real heavy on your mind. Because I'd have to get so involved in ideas, I'd…

— Porter Wagoner

We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret,…

— Sophy Burnham

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

— Clifford Geertz

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

— Meryl Streep

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

— Grant Heslov

“Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.”

— Austin Penman

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

— Sidney Sheldon

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

— Nelson Algren

When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"

— Wayne Dyer

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

— Bonnie McKee

I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

— Adam Rapp

“I love you because someday, you will write your story…and it will be amazing.”

— Anonymous

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

— Lucinda Williams

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Yesterday is history we write today to repeat it tomorrow.

— Vikrant Parsai

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

— Deb Caletti

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

— Jami Attenberg

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

— Beth Moore