Books Quote by Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

— Emma Thompson

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

— Paul Strisik

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

— Joel Chandler Harris

Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the…

— Howard Nemerov

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

— Quentin Tarantino

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

— Brian Koppelman

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

— Jerry Stahl

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

— John Steinbeck

“Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list.”

— Karen Salmansohn

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

— Rebecca West

“First, you need something to organize: ideas, material, scraps of expertise, recipes, prognostications, anecdotes, scurrilous gossip, anything that might be relevant to what you…

— Patricia T. O'Conner