Write Like Quotes

49 quotes by 49 authors

• I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before… — Erykah Badu
• I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them… — Anthony Bourdain
• Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it.… — Guy Clark
• They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,… — Oscar Wilde
• You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and… — Ray Bradbury
• If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy. — Isaac Babel
• I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic… — Lester Bangs
• STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE — Charles Ghigna
• For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron
• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic… — Zach Braff
• The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything… — Donald Harington
• If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories. — James M. Cain
• Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge. — James Scott Bell
• Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that. — Anna Kamienska
• Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you… — Clive Barker
• The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. — Robertson Davies
• I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. — Don Henley
• If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can… — Frederik Pohl
• In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics. — Maggie Stiefvater
• Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist,… — Greil Marcus

Who Wrote These Write Like Quotes

49 authors contributed a total of 49 Write Like Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 1 Write Like Quote by Isaac Babel
• 1 Write Like Quote by Jo Walton
• 1 Write Like Quote by Lester Bangs
• 1 Write Like Quote by Cheryl Strayed
• 1 Write Like Quote by Charles Ghigna
• 1 Write Like Quote by Ruth Ozeki
• 1 Write Like Quote by William Styron
• 1 Write Like Quote by Sophie Hannah
• 1 Write Like Quote by Zach Braff
• 1 Write Like Quote by Penelope Lively
• 1 Write Like Quote by Donald Harington
• 1 Write Like Quote by John Barton
• 1 Write Like Quote by James M. Cain
• 1 Write Like Quote by Harry Mathews
• 1 Write Like Quote by James Scott Bell
• 1 Write Like Quote by Frank Ocean
• 1 Write Like Quote by Anna Kamienska
• 1 Write Like Quote by Prem Rawat
• 1 Write Like Quote by Clive Barker
• 1 Write Like Quote by Nikhil Saluja
• 1 Write Like Quote by Robertson Davies
• 1 Write Like Quote by Philip Levine
• 1 Write Like Quote by Don Henley
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