I Write Quotes

1668 quotes by 1211 authors

I write to discover what I think — Daniel J. Boorstin
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid… — Joss Whedon
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by… — Flannery O'Connor
I write to find out what I'm talking about. — Edward Albee
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. Itâ€™s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the… — Anne Tyler
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring… — Edward Gorey
I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself… — Anne Frank
I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me. — Christian Bauman
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very… — Dorothy L. Sayers
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the… — Ernest Hemingway
I write emotional algebra. — Anais Nin
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX… — Chuck Palahniuk
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it… — Emily Dickinson
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation â€”… — Peter De Vries
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it;… — Charles Dickens
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out — Michael Ondaatje
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only… — Shannon Hale
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there. — H.G. Wells
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these… — Ayn Rand

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