Commentary Quote by Yasmina Reza

I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

— David Means

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

— Eugene H. Peterson

I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing…

— Peter Orner

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I got to write most of everything I said.

— R. Lee Ermey

I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job, because I'm…

— Jason Isbell

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

— Gerald Asher

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.

— Richard Bausch

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it,…

— Sylvia Plath