Write Quotes · Page 94

“You can’t always write what you know—not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

— Roger Ebert

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

— Rich Mullins

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

— Wole Soyinka

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

— Rhiannon Giddens

I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's…

— Jonathan Ive

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

— Sarah Mlynowski

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

— Hannibal Buress

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

I write in quite a simple way because that's just the way I write. The vocab I use is quite wee. That's…

— Limmy

If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore…

— Isabel Allende

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that…

— Neil Strauss

I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what…

— Ann M. Martin

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to…

— Evangeline Lilly

Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice…

— Terence Winter

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

— Michael Morpurgo

When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple…

— Withered Hand

When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each other but each…

— Teju Cole

If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you…

— Jon Scieszka

There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As…

— Rick Atkinson

I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But…

— Kyle Dunnigan

I think it's really important to not talk about how you're going to release something until you've finished it. People are like,…

— Nick Murphy

I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes…

— Tom Green

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t…

— Deena Metzger

“Life is much worse than anything I could write about.”

— M.C. O'Neill

“You know why I write? Because paper can't tell me to SHUT UP.”

— Ksenia Anske

“It does not take God one second to re-write your ugly past .”

— Osunsakin Adewale

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

— Richard Hugo

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

— Ernest Hemingway

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

— Lev Grossman

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

— Ray Bradbury

You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.

— Zach Galifianakis

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

— Violante Placido

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

— Paul Theroux

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

— Walter Jon Williams

I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.

— S. E. Hinton

You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.

— Will Rogers

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

— K'naan

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

— Jennifer Weiner

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

— Maynard James Keenan