You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 486 authors

Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set… — Georgette Heyer
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. — W. Somerset Maugham
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip. — Elmore Leonard
Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to… — Nick Cave
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things. — Saul Griffith
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of… — C. K. Williams
When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a… — Janine di Giovanni
You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do. — Brendan O'Carroll
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel… — Danielle Steel
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research… — Jimmy Breslin
When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us.… — Jon Katz
You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know. — Joyce Maynard
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination,… — Paul Theroux
I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one. — Taylor Swift
If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end. — Johnny Vegas
You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings. — Phil Anselmo
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again. — Dani Shapiro
Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you… — Joe Posnanski

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