Write Something Quotes

180 quotes by 160 authors

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. — William H. Gass
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I… — James Frey
I always want to write something better than the last book. — Tracy Kidder
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know… — Lorrie Moore
You write something and thereâ€™s no reality to it. You canâ€™t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep… — Deborah Eisenberg
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead — Elfriede Jelinek
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded… — Ben Fountain
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too. — Tim Maleeny
Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker â€¦ [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of… — Shirley Jackson
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock
Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesnâ€™t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say,… — Brian Michael Bendis
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about — Geezer Butler
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think. — Charles Kuralt
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you… — Roy Blount, Jr.
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good. — Will Champion
Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldnâ€™t. Blow something up. But well. — Shalom Auslander
Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him. — Bruce Vilanch
And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a… — Gregg Easterbrook
Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before youâ€™re dead, youâ€™ll have to write something. But the folks… — Ariel Gore

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