I Write Quotes

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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming… — Joyce Carol Oates
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am… — George Burns
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the… — Oscar Wilde
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of… — Johannes Kepler
Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also… — Kristin Hannah
I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other. — Terry McMillan
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life. — Martin Gore
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. — Margaret Forster
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn… — Philip Roth
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,… — Flannery O'Connor
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it… — Anton Chekhov
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I… — John D. MacDonald
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED.… — Amy Tan
I type in one place, but I write all over the house. — Toni Morrison
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose… — Lionel Shriver
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much… — Elizabeth Bowen
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't… — Truman Capote
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one… — Ernest Hemingway
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in… — Fran Lebowitz
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow. — Georges Simenon
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. — Tom Stoppard
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand. — Anne Tyler
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. — Fay Weldon
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come… — Gerald Brenan

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