You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 486 authors

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one? — Kate DiCamillo
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all,… — Annie Dillard
It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. — David Duchovny
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times.… — Umberto Eco
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt… — Mark Haddon
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your… — Ernest Hemingway
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. — Lillian Hellman
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from… — Lillian Hellman
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. — Walter Isaacson
It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one… — Jessie J
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
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. — John Jakes
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' — Stephen King
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more… — Stephen King
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the… — Stephen King
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. — Dean Koontz
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render… — Tony Kushner
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it… — Madeleine L'Engle
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be… — Elmore Leonard
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish… — George R. R. Martin

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