We Write Quotes

127 quotes by 111 authors

• We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words… — Garrison Keillor
• Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be,… — Robert Cray
• My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to… — Nick Kroll
• We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands, — Ronald Dworkin
• We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. — Nikki Giovanni
• Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a… — Ellie Goulding
• I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to… — Howard Nemerov
• We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. — Anais Nin
• For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which… — Virginia Woolf
• People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. — William Shakespeare
• We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. — W. Somerset Maugham
• We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's… — Anne Lamott
• We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The… — Anne Lamott
• First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear… — C.S. Lewis
• I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I… — Kurt Vonnegut
• I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why… — Lloyd Jones
• Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. — Jincy Willett
• What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice… — Annie Proulx
• What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. — James Joyce
• We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José

Who Wrote These We Write Quotes

111 authors contributed a total of 127 We Write Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 We Write Quotes by Anais Nin
• 3 We Write Quotes by Anne Lamott
• 3 We Write Quotes by Nishan Panwar
• 2 We Write Quotes by Maya Angelou
• 2 We Write Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 2 We Write Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 We Write Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 2 We Write Quotes by Richard Peck
• 2 We Write Quotes by Medeski Martin And Wood
• 2 We Write Quotes by James Joyce
• 2 We Write Quotes by C.S. Lewis
• 2 We Write Quotes by Ronald Dworkin
• 1 We Write Quote by Anthony Shadid
• 1 We Write Quote by Meg Rosoff
• 1 We Write Quote by Neil Gaiman
• 1 We Write Quote by Natalie Goldberg
• 1 We Write Quote by Toni Morrison
• 1 We Write Quote by Joan Didion
• 1 We Write Quote by Layne Staley
• 1 We Write Quote by Kenzaburo Oe
• 1 We Write Quote by Maurice Sendak
• 1 We Write Quote by Thomas Bernhard
• 1 We Write Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
• 1 We Write Quote by Mark Batterson
• 1 We Write Quote by Howard Gardner