I Write Quotes

1668 quotes by 1211 authors

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing. — Patricia MacLachlan
I write a world where everyone is partly right. — Orhan Pamuk
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in… — Orhan Pamuk
My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down… — Cynthia Voigt
I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I… — Gina Prince-Bythewood
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a… — Gillian Cross
The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration. — Gillian Cross
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. — Catherine Jinks
I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never… — William Sleator
My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write. — Will Hobbs
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. — Caroline Lawrence
I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I… — Ann Packer
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me. — Gerry Beckley
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care… — Pico Iyer
I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to write a chapter… — Virginia Henley
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just… — Michael Hastings
I write - and then I write some more. — Frank Delaney
I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that… — Mary Roach
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear… — Mary Roach
When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult… — Michael Cadnum

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