You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 498 authors

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth… — Michael Connelly
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a… — Jon Secada
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what… — Jaron Lanier
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush. — Li-Young Lee
Every time you write a poem itâ€™s apocalyptic. Youâ€™re revealing who you really are to yourself. — Li-Young Lee
Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when you were a… — Alberto Villoldo
Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey
Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the… — Maya Angelou
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that… — Steven Saylor
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you… — Anne Rice
Iâ€™ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [â€˜you canâ€™t publish that because of the national security… — James Risen
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just… — Kenneth Patchen
I donâ€™t care what you write man, just make sure you make us sound sexy. Say that we looked like weâ€™d just come from the… — Nathan Followill
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. — Gilbert Morris
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come… — Hunter S. Thompson
We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the… — Amanda Palmer
Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will… — Elizabeth Gilbert
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop… — John Grisham
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. — Gertrude Stein

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