Write Quotes · Page 86

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

— Kim Carnes

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

— Beverly Cleary

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

— Jeffery Deaver

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

— Howard Nemerov

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

— Gore Vidal

Stop trying to write your own 'love story', let God write it for you, he knows whats best.

— Ashilly

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

— Nick Harkaway

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,'…

— David S. Goyer

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it…

— John D. MacDonald

“I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns…

— Kim Krizan

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

— Gustave Flaubert

I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side…

— Eve

My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on…

— Olly Murs

What I write is all from my imagination. Fact is, I haven't had time to experience all that, but that doesn't mean…

— Mariah Carey

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at…

— A. S. Byatt

“As a writer, I do not treat writing merely as a profession but more of as my "calling" and my way of…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about…

— Anne Lamott

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially…

— Frankie Cosmos

I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves…

— Tom Perrotta

I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the…

— Langhorne Slim

“Here's a song, here's another, here's a third...now go on and write a story.”

— Johnny Marr

“If you are mad right now, good. Use your emotions as fuel to write down everything now.”

— Christy Piper

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

— Charlaine Harris

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

— Karin Slaughter

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

— Julia Cameron

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

— Clarice Lispector

I write not because I'm free but because everyday I find some time for myself¦

— Nishan Panwar

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

— Howard Nemerov

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

— Bradford Cox

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

— Christopher Morley

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

— Mark Hoppus

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

— Emily Giffin

When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there.

— James Van Praagh

I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw.

— Thomas Aquinas

Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.

— James Altucher