You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 486 authors

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way… — John Irving
No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing. — Voltaire
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. — Sherman Alexie
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it — Natalie Goldberg
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it… — Stephen King
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt… — Ernest Hemingway
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various… — Roland Barthes
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of… — Arthur Ransome
What you write chooses you. — Terry Brooks
You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can… — James A. Baldwin
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because… — Rebecca Solnit
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
You cannot write unless you write much. — W. Somerset Maugham
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. — Salman Rushdie
i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you… — Ernest Hemingway
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. — Richard Price
There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's… — Brad Meltzer

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