You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 498 authors

Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet. — Courtney Love
You write your life story by the choices you make, — Helen Mirren
All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do… — Martin Short
Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you… — Billy Corgan
It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book… — Diana Peterfreund
Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now knowâ€¦I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to… — Shane Black
It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the… — Eddie Vedder
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world...… — James A. Baldwin
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But… — Andre Kertesz
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised… — Margaret Atwood
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more… — Ray Bradbury
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing… — James Dickey
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can. — Walter Jon Williams
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. — Patrick Ness
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day… — Ian Fleming
There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history. — Paul Watson
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee
There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask… — M.F.K. Fisher
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write… — Virginia Woolf
Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) — Nora Barnacle

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