I Write Quotes

1668 I Write quotes by 1176 unique authors

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a… — Ray Bradbury
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work… — Fernando Pessoa
When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose — Anne Fadiman
They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed.… — Baron de Montesquieu
I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important,… — William Golding
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be… — J D Salinger
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of… — Gore Vidal
As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident… — Joan Didion
I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my… — Jessica Sorensen
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 Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it 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
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’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 ‘The Masses’. 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 somebody’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 isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s… — Chuck Palahniuk

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