Never Write Quotes

87 quotes by 77 authors

• If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
• If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof… — Margaret Atwood
• I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring. — Harlan Coben
• There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn… — Thomas Perry
• Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! — John A. Macdonald
• If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
• Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly. — Quintilian
• I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. — Mark Twain
• I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope. — Stanley Elkin
• I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow. — Margaret Atwood
• Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not… — Ernest Hemingway
• I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but I am not… — Henryk Gorecki
• If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they… — Erica Jong
• I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write, — Martin Amis
• You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'… — Margaret Atwood
• Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail. — Eliot Spitzer
• Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line. — Erica Jong
• If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line. — Max Frisch
• Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. — Fred Saberhagen
• I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at… — Helen Dunmore

Who Wrote These Never Write Quotes

77 authors contributed a total of 87 Never Write Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Never Write Quotes by Margaret Atwood
• 3 Never Write Quotes by David Ogilvy
• 3 Never Write Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 Never Write Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
• 2 Never Write Quotes by Erica Jong
• 1 Never Write Quote by Alan Rickman
• 1 Never Write Quote by Derek Raymond
• 1 Never Write Quote by Marjane Satrapi
• 1 Never Write Quote by Tony Gilroy
• 1 Never Write Quote by Taylor Swift
• 1 Never Write Quote by Douglas Coupland
• 1 Never Write Quote by Anne Tyler
• 1 Never Write Quote by Steven Heighton
• 1 Never Write Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1 Never Write Quote by William Faulkner
• 1 Never Write Quote by Tim O'Brien
• 1 Never Write Quote by Richard Hugo
• 1 Never Write Quote by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Never Write Quote by Daisaku Ikeda
• 1 Never Write Quote by Rick Riordan
• 1 Never Write Quote by Gregory Maguire
• 1 Never Write Quote by Nikki Giovanni
• 1 Never Write Quote by Marguerite Young
• 1 Never Write Quote by Charles Yu
• 1 Never Write Quote by Cardinal Richelieu