You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 498 authors

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. — Tina Fey
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf… — William Saroyan
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to… — Alanis Morissette
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one… — Ernest Hemingway
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The… — Ernest Hemingway
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word… — W. P. Kinsella
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others. — Susan Sontag
Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you… — Arnold J. Toynbee
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the… — Ellen Gilchrist
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved. — Tracy Kidder
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you. — Zadie Smith
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just… — Joyce Carol Oates
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details,… — Rohinton Mistry
Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas. — Joshua Schachter
If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about… — Billy Crystal
You write a hit the same way you write a flop. — Alan Jay Lerner

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