Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
— Unknown Author
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes…
— Lucille Clifton
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
— Fran Lebowitz
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
— Anne Lamott
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Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.
— Julia Quinn
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She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.
— Sister Souljah
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I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I…
— Matthew Quick
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Of course.” She fluffed her hair. “I don’t want to brag, but I’m very high maintenance.” “Uh, I think low maintenance is what’s desirable.” “Low…
— Gena Showalter
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I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you…
— Hilary Mantel
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In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.
— John Banville
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If you own this story you get to write the ending.
— Brené Brown
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When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a…
— Ernest Hemingway
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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and…
— Ernest Hemingway
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She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never…
— Janet Fitch
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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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