Write Anything Quotes
80 quotes by 73 authors
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It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,…
— James Dickey
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can…
— Thomas Merton
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I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I…
— Fiona Apple
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As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through everything, you know,…
— Dolly Parton
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Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the…
— Steve Carell
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Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
— Courtney Love
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I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is…
— Philip Pullman
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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
— Terry Brooks
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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract…
— Akira Kurosawa
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I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify,…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are…
— Anne Bronte
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I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.
— Marvin Harris
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There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have…
— Tom Odell
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Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to…
— H. L. Mencken
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Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned…
— Tony Grisoni
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Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
— Derek Raymond
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Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the…
— Charles M. Schulz
Who Wrote These Write Anything Quotes
73 authors contributed a total of 80 Write Anything Quotes, led by these top contributors: