Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. “He’s my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life.” Al cleared his…
— Kim Harrison
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he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
— Aldous Huxley
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I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a…
— Ray Bradbury
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Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
— Ray Bradbury
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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
— Ray Bradbury
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
— Ahdaf Soueif
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Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have…
— Linda Howard
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It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
— Eric Hobsbawm
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We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted…
— Zadie Smith
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Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
— Charles Dickens
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When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter--someone new? Someone better--maybe YOU!
— Shel Silverstein
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You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write every…
— Stephen King
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Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids…
— Maurice Sendak
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When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
— Anne Fadiman
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Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.
— Josephine Tey
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I will write my way into another life.
— Ann Patchett
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Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing…
— N.D. Wilson
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What did you write on here? ‘Don’t die’?” “No, I wrote, ‘Don’t be an asshole!’”I headed for the house. “On yours or mine?” “On yours.”…
— Ilona Andrews
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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense
— Mark Twain
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