Write Something Quotes

180 quotes by 160 authors

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a… — Haruki Murakami
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly… — David Nicholls
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. — Joyce Carol Oates
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. — Chuck Palahniuk
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead… — Chuck Palahniuk
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. — Sun Ra
I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an… — Daniel Radcliffe
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. — Anne Rice
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different. — Anne Rice
I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. — Maurice Sendak
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. — Arthur Smith
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits… — Paul Theroux
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. — Gore Vidal
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't… — Alice Walker
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence… — Brenda Ueland
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot… — William T. Vollmann
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would… — Eduardo Galeano
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot… — Isabel Allende
It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere

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