Write Quotes · Page 96

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

— Jane Yolen

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

— Andrew Vachss

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how…

— Anthony Trollope

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

— Colin Quinn

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

— Mack Wilberg

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

— Barry Hannah

I like to write about characters who are conflicted.

— Jed Mercurio

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

— Robert Silverberg

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college,…

— Cynthia Kadohata

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can…

— Mandy Patinkin

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

— Edward Abbey

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

— Libba Bray

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for…

— Anonymous

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

— N. K. Jemisin

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't…

— J. K. Rowling

Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment…

— Italo Calvino

Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've…

— Neil Gaiman

When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you…

— Steve "Lips" Kudlow

I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in…

— Roxane Gay

Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll…

— David Almond

“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve —…

— Joy Williams

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

— Julia Quinn

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

— Ashanti

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

— Brian McKnight

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

— Celia Green

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

— Alison McGhee

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

— S.J. Watson

I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction.

— Michael Connelly

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

— William Nicholson

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

— Sylvia Day

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.

— Macaulay Culkin

I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

— J. K. Rowling

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

— S. E. Hinton

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

— Noah Cyrus

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

— Sara Sheridan

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

— Oscar Wilde

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

— Richard Peck