Never Write Quotes

87 quotes by 77 authors

• Never write a letter while you are angry. — Jimi Hendrix
• Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. — Trevor McDonald
• I never write with an actor in mind - never. — Andrea Arnold
• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing… — Ted Dekker
• I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just… — Charles Frazier
• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a… — Karin Fossum
• In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are… — Christopher Guest
• I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had… — Tana French
• I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself. — Dree Hemingway
• I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be. — Wiz Khalifa
• If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you. — Amy Winehouse
• I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first… — Carol Anshaw
• I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy… — Gore Vidal
• I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without… — C S Forester
• One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. — Christopher Isherwood
• Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert
• Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. — David Ogilvy
• I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write. — Chuck Palahniuk
• I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not… — Alan Rickman
• I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to… — Marjane Satrapi

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 Mark Twain
• 3 Never Write Quotes by David Ogilvy
• 2 Never Write Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
• 2 Never Write Quotes by Erica Jong
• 1 Never Write Quote by Harlan Coben
• 1 Never Write Quote by Trevor McDonald
• 1 Never Write Quote by Morris Gleitzman
• 1 Never Write Quote by Thomas Perry
• 1 Never Write Quote by Andrea Arnold
• 1 Never Write Quote by Jean Paul
• 1 Never Write Quote by John A. Macdonald
• 1 Never Write Quote by Ted Dekker
• 1 Never Write Quote by Elliott Carter
• 1 Never Write Quote by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
• 1 Never Write Quote by Charles Frazier
• 1 Never Write Quote by Jewel
• 1 Never Write Quote by Quintilian
• 1 Never Write Quote by Karin Fossum
• 1 Never Write Quote by Doris Lessing
• 1 Never Write Quote by Christopher Guest
• 1 Never Write Quote by Daniel Tammet
• 1 Never Write Quote by Stanley Elkin
• 1 Never Write Quote by Tana French
• 1 Never Write Quote by Yust Lundberg