I Write Quotes

1668 quotes by 1211 authors

When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too?… — Nicholas Sparks
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of… — Flannery O'Connor
I think writing about the time in Hermioneâ€™s life that I write about â€“ growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think itï»¿ brought back… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. — Patti Smith
The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life… — Jennifer Donnelly
You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax — Abbi Glines
Writerâ€™s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something Iâ€™ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by… — Orson Scott Card
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as â€˜The Massesâ€™. Both abstractions,… — Jorge Luis Borges
If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about… — Louis L'Amour
Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat… — Richard Siken
I write as if to save somebodyâ€™s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because… — Clarice Lispector
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my… — Elie Wiesel
This book is entirely dedicated to my wife, Robin Sullivan. Some have asked how it is I write such strong women without resorting to putting… — Michael J. Sullivan
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently… — Fernando Pessoa
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isnâ€™t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. Thatâ€™s… — Chuck Palahniuk
As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going… — Nicholas Sparks
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing… — Susan Cain
When I write this in bed, I can almost hear the echo of the wind over the sand, or the groans of wooden panels around… — Lucy Christopher
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist
And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when youâ€™re old enough, this story that lives with me,… — Tatiana de Rosnay

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