Write Them Quotes

127 quotes by 124 authors

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. — Karen Thompson Walker
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me,… — Karen Thompson Walker
I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's… — Dave Grohl
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that… — Charles de Lint
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write… — Charles de Lint
I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is… — John Grisham
A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good… — Mick Jagger
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to… — Salman Rushdie
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. — George Bernard Shaw
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days. — Anurag Kashyap
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. — Oscar Wilde
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… — Diane Setterfield
There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody… — Charles Bukowski
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations… — Logan Pearsall Smith
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell… — Margaret Drabble
I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do… — Samuel Beckett
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in… — Robin McKinley
Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can… — Nick Hornby
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. — Khalil Gibran
You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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