I Write Quotes

1668 I Write quotes by 1176 unique authors

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me,… — Sue Grafton
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished. — James Patterson
I write to discover what I know. — Flannery O'Connor
When I want to read a novel, I write one. — Benjamin Disraeli
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’....… — Maya Angelou
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are… — Stephen Fry
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what… — Franz Kafka
When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all. — Nora Raleigh Baskin
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What… — Douglas Adams
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different… — Joe Meno
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of… — Tom Wolfe
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. — Doris Lessing
I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. — William H. Gass
I write out of revenge. — William Goldman
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. — James M. Cain
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot… — Kage Baker
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the… — Unknown Author
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are… — Madeleine L'Engle
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that… — Susan Sontag
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. — Fernando Pessoa
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to… — Augusten Burroughs
I do not know what I think until I write it. — George Bernard Shaw
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. — Zadie Smith

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