Never Write Quotes

87 quotes by 77 authors

• You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way. — William Kraft
• Never write more than two pages on any subject. — David Ogilvy
• Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond
• You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write… — Tony Gilroy
• We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. — Douglas Coupland
• Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest… — Steven Heighton
• The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier… — William Faulkner
• Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective — Ernest Hemingway
• Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it. — Richard Hugo
• Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to… — David Ogilvy
• I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the… — Mark Twain
• Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we… — Daisaku Ikeda
• I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to… — Gregory Maguire
• I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book… — Marguerite Young
• Never write a letter and never destroy one. — Cardinal Richelieu
• You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again. — Patricia Duncker
• You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories,… — Anne Lamott
• An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and… — Mark Twain
• Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the… — R L Stine
• I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me. — Holland Taylor

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