You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 486 authors

When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to… — Donald Knuth
Somebody who had read Lila asked me, â€˜Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?â€™ I said: â€˜Itâ€™s not a problem. Itâ€™s a condition.… — Marilynne Robinson
If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when… — Denis Johnson
Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time… — Rick Warren
You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again. — Patricia Duncker
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game. — Paul Harding
All experience helps when you write. — Jerome Lawrence
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative. — Dani Shapiro
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements. — Robert Rodriguez
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on… — Lewis Carroll
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of… — Juliana Hatfield
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more… — Pat Morita
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you? — George Orwell
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's… — Ernest Hemingway
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop. — William Saroyan
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all… — William Saroyan
You write about what you know. — Larry David
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation.… — Amy Tan
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and… — Anthony Burgess

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