You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 498 authors

If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so far that it's… — Brenda Ueland
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object… — Maya Angelou
I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free… — Nora Ephron
When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked. — Don Roff
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned. — Melanie Benjamin
Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true… — Helen Prejean
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else… — Barry Gibb
Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice. — Pen Densham
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write. — John Dos Passos
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. — Doris Lessing
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values.… — Stephen Covey
When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to… — Paulo Coelho
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to… — Mark Haddon
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the… — Edmond Jabes
When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment… — David Cottrell
All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are… — Jamaica Kincaid
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take… — Iyanla Vanzant
I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result.… — Sue Grafton
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become convinced… — Brenda Ueland

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