I Write Quotes

1668 I Write quotes by 1176 unique authors

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. — Clifton Webb
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it. — Jorie Graham
Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it. — Unknown Author
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was… — Norma Fox Mazer
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt… — Unknown Author
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination. — Leslie Banks
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. — Peter Straub
When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be. — Gloria Estefan
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write — Colin Quinn
I write as a witness to what I have seen. — Terry Tempest Williams
I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. — Terry Tempest Williams
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be… — Terry Tempest Williams
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I… — Haruki Murakami
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down… — Raymond Chandler
When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds… — Unknown Author
I write music with an exclamation point! — Richard Wagner
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach. — Macklemore
The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try… — Orson Scott Card
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write… — John Thorn
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of… — Edward Abbey
Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind… — Joan Didion
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like… — Gilles Deleuze
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of… — Marquis de Sade
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. — Nicholas Sparks

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