Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5088 authors
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I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
— Lois Wyse
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within…
— Maya Angelou
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I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a…
— John Grisham
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You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax
— Abbi Glines
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I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm…
— Fiona Apple
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Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by…
— Orson Scott Card
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People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable…
— Unknown Author
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
— Oscar Wilde
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Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.
— Terry Pratchett
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I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with…
— Patricia Briggs
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I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the…
— Chris d'Lacey
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Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come…
— Frank McCourt
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You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this…
— David Morrell
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As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We…
— Natalie Goldberg
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I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
— Herman Wouk
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Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what…
— Guy Kawasaki
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When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,†he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that…
— Stephen King
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