Write Quotes

10211 quotes by 5140 authors

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care… — Pico Iyer
I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity… — Joel Edgerton
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in… — Abraham Lincoln
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. — Gian Carlo Menotti
TV is where a writer can write his novel. — Richard LaGravenese
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species. — James Gleick
In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a… — Virginia Henley
Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland… — Virginia Henley
I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to write a chapter… — Virginia Henley
When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it. — Steven Sinofsky
I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write. — Philippe Petit
It was either write or die for me. — Michael Hastings
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just… — Michael Hastings
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a… — Del Shannon
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs… — Del Shannon
I write - and then I write some more. — Frank Delaney
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I… — Guy Gavriel Kay
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft. — Henry Petroski

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