I Write Quotes

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My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and… — Taylor Swift
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At… — David Grossman
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write… — George Orwell
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every… — N.K. Jemisin
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them… — Stephen King
Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write… — Pablo Neruda
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things… — Stephen Fry
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. — Tom Stoppard
Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a… — Eric Foner
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't.… — Jean Cocteau
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a… — Ray Bradbury
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work… — Fernando Pessoa
When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose — Anne Fadiman
They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed.… — Baron de Montesquieu
I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important,… — William Golding
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be… — J D Salinger
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of… — Gore Vidal
As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident… — Joan Didion
I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my… — Jessica Sorensen

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