I Write Quotes

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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class,… — Ian Rankin
I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with… — Amy Ray
When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The… — David O. Russell
Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries… — John Shelton Reed
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. — Mike Rutherford
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth… — Satyajit Ray
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours. — Brandon Sanderson
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in… — Brandon Sanderson
When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know… — Jonathan Stroud
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day.… — Karrine Steffans
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women. — Curtis Sittenfeld
Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work. — Emeli Sande
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well,… — George Saunders
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. — Jose Saramago
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write. — Franz Kafka
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following… — Jonathan Lethem
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do… — Jerry Spinelli
I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible. — Joe Scarborough
I write in American slang. — Norman Spinrad
I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a… — Regina Spektor

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