Write Anything Quotes

80 quotes by 73 authors

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. — David Crosby
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything. — John Mellencamp
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just… — Oscar Hammerstein II
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert
Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't… — Earl Long
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself… — Anne Frank
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a… — Anne Rice
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all. — Elwyn Brooks White
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is… — Julio Cortazar
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know. — Raymond Chandler
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And… — Louise Erdrich
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a… — Lisa See
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth — Lucy Maud Montgomery
If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything. — Pete Townshend
You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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