Write Quotes
10211 Write quotes by 4912 unique authors
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It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws…
— Bryce Courtenay
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I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my…
— Mark Lawrence
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But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them…
— Jonathan Evison
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The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt…
— Danny Wallace
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I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As…
— Lawrence Wright
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I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.
— Unknown Author
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As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal…
— Piri Thomas
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I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.
— Ansel Elgort
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It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like…
— Carolyn See
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I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.
— Jean Giono
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We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
— Dave Haywood
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You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom…
— Dave Haywood
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Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We…
— Isaac Hanson
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I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
— Nigel Kneale
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The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then…
— Nigel Kneale
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A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am…
— Anamika Mishra
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Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to…
— Alice McCall
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Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you…
— Austin Kleon
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The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best—write the…
— Austin Kleon
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Write the book you want to read
— Austin Kleon
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The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.
— Austin Kleon
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I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it .…
— Jorie Graham
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The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind,…
— John Farrar
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To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,
— David McCullough
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The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many…
— Seth Godin
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