You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 486 authors

• All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly… — Neil Gaiman
• You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing… — N.D. Wilson
• What did you write on here? ‘Don’t die’?” “No, I wrote, ‘Don’t be an asshole!’”I headed for the house. “On yours or mine?” “On yours.”… — Ilona Andrews
• That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole… — Kurt Vonnegut
• ...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. — Jeanette Winterson
• When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write… — Joss Whedon
• Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you… — Hilary Mantel
• You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this… — David Morrell
• Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what… — Guy Kawasaki
• When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that… — Stephen King
• Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work.… — Cheryl Strayed
• If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about… — Louis L'Amour
• Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’… — Charles Bukowski
• You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the… — Junot Diaz
• One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy. Your parents want… — Sam Lipsyte
• I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God… — Fred Rogers
• When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end… — Louis C. K.
• But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my… — Gail Carson Levine
• If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the… — Rod Serling

Who Wrote These You Write Quotes

486 authors contributed a total of 619 You Write Quotes, led by these top contributors:

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