You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 498 authors

When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one… — Jacques Brel
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too. — Tim Maleeny
Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write. — Seth Godin
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about — Elias Canetti
I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma.… — Barbara Boxer
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! — Hilary Putnam
Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker â€¦ [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of… — Shirley Jackson
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and… — Jonathan Carroll
There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different. — Paul Greengrass
Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something… — Jodi Picoult
If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? — Brian Kernighan
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. — Ally Condie
The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish… — Dominick Dunne
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me. — Sue Monk Kidd
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. — Roy Blount, Jr.
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in… — Caroline B. Cooney
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself… — Iris Chang
You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got… — Tony Grisoni
Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it… — Smokey Robinson
When you write a song, a song has longevity — Smokey Robinson

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