Write Quotes · Page 98

“i write because it is the only way i can reach you.”

— Sanober Khan

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

— Harlan Ellison

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

— Farley Mowat

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

— Ashilly

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

— Gore Vidal

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

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

— Jeffery Deaver

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something…

— Regina Spektor

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it…

— Jason Mraz

“O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in…

— Bill Hayes

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think…

— Bob Seger

“...do you like to write?" "No. No writer really likes to write. I like to make love and drink wine. At my…

— Rubem Fonseca

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

— Don Murray

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of…

— Andre Gide

I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if…

— Patricia MacLachlan

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to…

— Daniel Handler

I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There…

— Amish Tripathi

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to…

— Kirsten Vangsness

“We are all writers from an early age. Most of what we write is nonfiction—essays for school, letters to friends, memoranda to…

— Sol Stein

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or…

— Harlan Ellison

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

— Howard Nemerov

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

— Natalie Goldberg

I really want to write, and it's the only thing I'm good at.

— Christopher Markus

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Beverly Cleary

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

— Kim Carnes

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.

— Sinead O'Connor

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

— Lauren Myracle

I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.

— Toyah Willcox

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

— Macklemore

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

— Anne Lamott

These words are all I have so I write them I need them just to get by.

— Fall Out Boy

I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose.

— Steven Van Zandt

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

— Patricia Marx

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

— Martin Short