You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 498 authors

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. — Rudy Rucker
The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write. — Sol Saks
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere… — Keren Ann
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way. — William Kraft
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good. — Will Champion
STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE — Charles Ghigna
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to… — Roger Waters
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience… — Zadie Smith
If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out in the lobby,… — Louis C. K.
You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that.… — Fleur Adcock
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of… — Marcel Achard
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading. — Steve Lopez
Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to… — Louis L'Amour
With fiction, thereâ€™s no reason why everything you write shouldnâ€™t be amazing. Nobodyâ€™s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower
You write to be read. That is the bottom line. — Jane Yolen
My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters. — Daniel Lyons
What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert… — Alexander Murdoch Mackay
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard… — Jessica Cutler
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about. — Leon Uris
I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it… — Victoria Wood

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