I Write Quotes

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. — Alice Walker
I write to save someone's life, probably my own — Clarice Lispector
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature. — Susan Sontag
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button. — Anne Lamott
I talk out the lines as I write them. — Tennessee Williams
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. — Joseph Heller
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer. — Will Eisner
Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue. — Gloria Naylor
Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me… — Ray Bradbury
Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul — Paulo Coelho
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know… — Isabel Allende
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body. — Helen Keller
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white.… — Terry Tempest Williams
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies. — Anne Frank
When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ...… — Naguib Mahfouz
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed. — Sherman Alexie
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely.… — Saul Bellow
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's… — Alice Walker
Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been… — Clive James
I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by… — Sheryl Crow
I don't read books, I write them. — Henry A. Kissinger
I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I… — Arthur Miller
Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did. — Mort Walker
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too. — Kate Morton
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me. — Bret Easton Ellis

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