Quotation Explorer - 'Write'

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. - Ernest Hemingway
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. - Tom Schulman
Writers write while dreamers procastinate. - Besa Kosova
The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer. - Billy Marshall Stoneking
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. - Richard Peck
When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt. - M.F. Moonzajer
You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story. - Angela Banks
I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. - Anne Schroeder
Warrior of the night must be awake to write the sacred words. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Write where you want to go. - A.D. Posey
No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write! - Chrys Fey
I write to shed my tears. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. - Jean Anouilh
But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it. - Cassandra Clare
Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don’t read because there are no interesting writers. - Enock Maregesi
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between. - Kevin James Breaux
A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. - Johnny Rich
I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in. - Rayne Hall
To write good poems is the secret of brevity. - Dejan Stojanovic
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I only wish to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. - Dean Koontz
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. - Walter Bagehot
Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it - Jason Calder
I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write - Ellie Rose McKee
It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it."[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.] - Don Henley
There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively. - Min Kim
If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about. - Sharon Delarose
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933] - Cyril Connolly
I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book. - Richard P. Denney
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity. - Martin Myers
I write to understand what I know. - Kamand Kojouri
It feels great to read but greater to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. - William Howard Taft
Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel. - Ally Spina
But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately. - Paul Collins
I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. - Henry David Thoreau
I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head. - Lettie Prell
I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence. - Michel Foucault
What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is, 'Criminy, why didn't I ever think to write that!' - Richelle E. Goodrich
I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I’m not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I’d rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening. - James Rozoff
The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written. - David Alejandro Fearnhead
Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt. - Lauren DeStefano
Write a page a day and you'll have a complete novel in year. - Harry Whittington
I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else. - Patricia Highsmith
Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse. - Roman Payne
Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after - Janet Fitch
I write to get ideas out of my head - Bobbi Kay
Whenever I die, Please do not write 'r.i.p' next to my name. - Andrea L'Artiste
If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!) - Sarah J. Pepper
I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read. - K.D. Green
Do you have to do murder?Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about. - Leslie Ford
When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time. - Stephen King
It is almost impossible to write about those moments and feelings of indescribable joy and ecstasy which only a soul can realize. Your silent, pleasant, and blissful presence often gives me those moments. - Debasish Mridha
Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story. - Brian Keene
he captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say. - Nikki Rowe
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. - Pam Houston
Only write a story that only you can write. - Alysha Speer
Write what should not be forgotten. - Isabel Allende
If you’re dating a writer and they don’t write about you whether it’s good or bad then they don’t love you. They just don’t. Writers fall in love with the people we find inspiring. - Jamie Anne Royce
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. - Erica Jong
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know. - Don Murray
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. - Giacomo Casanova
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart. - Bess Streeter Aldrich
I have to live the content, then come back and write about it. - Heather Armstrong
I am no blank slate for love to write on.My heart has walls marred with cracks,bloodstains, and bullet holes;graffitied over by past lovers. - John Mark Green
Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present. - Onyi Anyado
Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips. - Jennifer Webb
Write what you like; there is no other rule. - O. Henry
If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write - Munia Khan
I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective. - Robin Sacredfire
Some writers write about love; some writers write with love. - Debasish Mridha
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston S. Churchill
When you speak, your words echo across the room. When you write, your words echo across the ages" Bud GardnerThis is what my books do about stories of the Past, Present and Futur. Enjoy!Visit my page on Amazon.com - Claire Hamelin Manning
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. - W. Somerset Maugham
You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do. - Carolyn Kizer
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man. - John W. Campbell Jr.
Don’t panic. If you write, you’ll be a writer. - Whitney Otto
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up. - William Saroyan
If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong. - Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart
You are giving me words to write a song and that's even better than butterflies. - Noone
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. - Philip Pullman
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does - Groucho Marx
I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones. - Santosh Kalwar
sad is the poem i will never write - jeet how romentic
I write to make sense of my life."-, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey - John Cheever
The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write? - Gilles Deleuze
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. - Sandra E. Lamb
Only write if you can't not. - Samuel Shem
Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write! - Margarita Gakis
Whenever you are depressed ,write your signature on a paper and write and write finally you ll have pain in you hand than your mind. - pavankumar nagaraj
The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I write to give strength to my spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story. - Angelica Banks
These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story. - Rebecca Allard
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! - Jackie Collins
I write to shed my sacred sorrows. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. - Kristen Lamb
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't. - Julia Cameron
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. - Maynard James Keenan
We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Write about the desire you dare to dream. - Debasish Mridha
Write to your fear. - Dorothy Allison
If you can write; then you are a writer - Rayvon L Browne - Rayvon L. Browne
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. - Patricia Hampl
What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write. - Gustave Flaubert
Begin to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me. - Daniel Willey
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. - David Sedaris
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. - Evelyn Waugh
We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins. - A.D. Posey
I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you. - Onyi Anyado
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. - Raymond E. Feist
You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle. - Pat Conroy
My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don’t read a book I don’t like so it doesn’t solve any of my problems. - Genesis Quihuis
The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories. - Vishwas Mudagal
Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in! - George H.W. Bush
Someday they're gonna write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet, and a bell.
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. - James M. Cain
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual - Virginia Woolf
Do not forget to write your sacred book. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I write to express my love for the humanity. - Debasish Mridha
Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath. - Ludwig Boltzmann
The Measure of success isn't money or the number of books you write, it is seen in the faces of those you love - Jason W. Blair
These words are all I have so I write them- I need them just to get by. - Fall Out Boy
There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't. - Jeffrey McDaniel
Write like it matters, and it will. - Libba Bray
When people write you off, just start again as if you don't belong to this world and see miracle happening! - Ramana Pemmaraju
I write because I believe - Anamika Mishra
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. - George Gordon Byron
If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves and often beautiful. - Brenda Peterson
You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time. - Sandra Brown
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. - Ernest Hemingway
Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. - A.D. Posey
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. - Francis Bacon
My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise. - Sinovuyo Nkonki
I'm a writer. I write checks. Mostly fiction. - Wendy Liebman
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. - George Ade
If you want to write, write. It’s as simple as that. - K.D. Green
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel. - Shannon L. Alder
I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about. - Oliver
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. - Kerouac
I write. See you there. - Barbara Johansen
It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99. - Ryan Lilly
I don't want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin. - Mary Sage Nguyen
Unlike Panic! At The Disco, I write sins AND Tragedies. - Carter Bates
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. - Susan Sontag
Only the victor gets to write history; where half of the facts are distorted and the other half invented. - Mamur Mustapha
Lots of people lose themselves in love, it's no shame, they write songs about it. The hitch is you can't stay lost, sooner or later you have to get back to yourself. If you can't then love becomes your master and you're just it's dog.
The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen. - M.F. Moonzajer
I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences. - Antonia Perdu
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. - Ernest Hemingway
If I was asked to write a poem about her. Every word I use would end up, being her name. And it would still sound so beautiful and breathtaking to me in the end. - Akshay Vasu
Write for a cause,NOT APPLAUSEWrite to express,NOT TO IMPRESS.Writing isn’t just about being noticed…IT'S BEING REMEMBERED - T.N. Suarez
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my creative contemplation of an opened mind...it is a storytelling venture on a blank page of paper and white canvases...it is reclaiming my life. - Isabella Koldras, Reclaiming my Life.
I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back. - Brian Spellman
True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing! - Robert Ahaness
All the music I write is a search for myself. - Bruce Hornsby
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. - Juan Ramón Jiménez
Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. - Toni Cade Bambara
I gave her love she gave me words to write - RazaZaidi
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do. - Kurt Vonnegut
If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks. - A.M. Homes
The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End". - Bryan Koepke
One of the things I’ve learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them. - Onyi Anyado
I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath? - Shannon Lynette
After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity. - George Ade
I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories. - Christopher Barzak
We wonder to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever... - Nick Armbrister
At X-Feer, we teach how to solve problems not how to write a code because that's the most important thing in coding. - Ahmed Abu Taha
Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them. - David Chuka
Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more. - A.E. Croft
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. - Virginia Woolf
Think it. Write it. Sell it. - Dee J. Adams
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. - Anne Rice
Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer. - James Kisner
We write the earth we stand upon. - Laura K. Cowan
I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is inside us all. - Aaron Marcusson
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. - François Mauriac
I write because it's a beautiful habit - Anamika Mishra
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Angeline M. Bishop
And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (How to Write with Style. Essay, 1985) - Kurt Vonnegut
If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."[on Twitter, July 17, 2012] - Scott Lynch
...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. - Angelica Banks
Until you know who you are you can’t write. - Salman Rushdie
When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation. - A.D. Posey
To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone. - Jean Genet
Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You’ll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or keeping up to date on the Kardashians. - Dan Alatorre
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write. - Tim O'Brien
Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf - Marvela Dawnay
For as long as I write, I will never be lost. - Nikki Rowe
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. - Ray Bradbury
Write it as a dream, read it as a goal. - Sakurai Sho
We write the history of our time. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it? - S. Kelley Harrell
We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper. - Sabine Shah
Write because you love to write. - Cindi Lee
Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it. - Christopher Isherwood
Life is short. Write naked. - A.D. Posey
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good - Thornton Wilder
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. - Richard Petracca
I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events. - Sara Sheridan
If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book. - M. Kirin
Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you. - Alice Walker
Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. - Debasish Mridha
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them. - Red Haircrow
Write down what you want your destiny to be, and in so doing you will live your dreams. - Stephen Richards
I write because I love. I love because I write. - A.D. Posey
A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!! - Anamika Mishra
I'm a writer. I write stuff. - Kevin J.J. Carpenter
Write what you love. Fill your pages with the beating of your own heart, the breath from your own lungs. Live through your characters. Let your characters live through you. Then you will love what you write, and others will, too. - Amanda Emerson
What is the meaning to this life? is a wrong question? A blank paper doesn’t contain any meaning till we don’t write anything meaningful on it. Similarly this universe doesn’t contain any meaning without this beautiful life. So life gives meaning to this universe and we should respect it. - Brajesh Kumar
Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live. - A.D. Posey
Everyday you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter do it so well such that if others read it, you would still be proud of yourself. - Gugu Mona
Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years.
Go write win! - A.D. Posey
And I go home having lost her love. And write this book. - Jack Kerouac
Writing the next lines and words of your life is something only you can do. We write our own stories. - Kim Pape
Write about the emotions you fear the most. - Laurie Halse Anderson
Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish. - Mo
We write "I love you" on the mouth by the kisses that touch it. (On écrit "je t'aime" sur bouche - Par les bisous qui la touchent.) - Charles de Leusse
Write until your idea becomes reality. - T.N. Suarez
While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another. - Sara Sheridan
Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. - Hemant Mehta
Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre. - Israelmore Ayivor
You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day. - Nema Al-Araby
I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves! - Anton Szandor LaVey
Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it. - Kris Rafferty
when i write of you, my deari am holding youin the most exquisiteways. - Sanober Khan
The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become. - A.D. Posey
Write as if life has no meanings without writing. - Debasish Mridha
When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness. - George Ivanovic
A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out - Michael Ondaatje
And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life. - Shannon L. Alder
I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough. - Kirk Wilson
Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel. - Melody Robinette
Stop talking about it and just WRITE! - C.K. Webb
I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control. - C.S. Woolley
I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No. - Cypher Lx
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. - Adrienne Rich
You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative! - Deyth Banger
i write, because not breathing is not an option. - Monice Mitchell Simms
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4) - David McCullough
I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever. - Rachel Hawkins
I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit. - Hank Moody
See the world anew and write down the bones of it. - A.D. Sams
A write only begins a book.A reader finishes it. - Samuel Johnson
I write and I rhyme because I love to see words dance. - Andrea L'Artiste
If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin. - Richie Norton
One day, I decided I was going to write books forever. - Carla H. Krueger
Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one. - A.D. Posey
There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write. - Sarah Hepola
I write because I cannot NOT write. - Charlotte Brontë
Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a difference. Touch someone’s heart. - S. Sloan
Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present. - M. Kirin
There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves. - Mark S. Hertzog
If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World. - Patrick Nowell-Smith
I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don't really care. - Briana Blair
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. - William Shakespeare
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. - Benjamin Disraeli
I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life. - Julia Cameron
If you own this story you get to write the ending. - Brené Brown
I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. - Ashly Lorenzana
To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine! - Susan Lendroth
Write before the sun comes up. - A.D. Posey
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better. - Ernest Hemingway
Write what you know. But make sure someone else would want to know it too! - Matthew Culberson
I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there. - Aurora Whittet
Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that? - Shandy L. Kurth
In order to write about life, first you must live it! - Ernest Hemingway
I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye. - Toni Morrison
She lives the poetry she cannot write - Larry Wilde
Being a writer means you write not only for yourself- but for others as well. That's what makes a writer a writer. - This is my own quote
Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker! - Marja Meijers
I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. - Marvin Harris
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. - K.J. Parker
Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity! - Thomas K. Matthews
You are not a story, your life is a story and youare the writer, write an inspiring one. - Wordions
To write a novel, you need an iron butt. - Richard M. Nixon
Be a great writer when you write your life's song. - Debasish Mridha
If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost. - Kishore Bansal
It feels good read but greater to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
Writers don’t write about just anybody. - A.D. Posey
I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future. - Debasish Mridha
I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.- - Nina Jean Slack
Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer. - J.D. Cunegan
When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world. - Debasish Mridha
When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. - Marti Melville
Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty - Cucuk Espe
Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future. - Habeeb Akande
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. - English Proverb
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into. - Turcois Ominek
Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about. - Kit Reed
I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it. - Richelle E. Goodrich
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing. - Jean Cocteau
If you don't write it down, it never happened.Cathy (& Jack) Ryan - Tom Clancy
Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better. - Richelle E. Goodrich
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book. - Lailah Gifty Akita
[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see. - Viola Gregg Liuzzo
You were meant to write this book. - M. Kirin
Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. - Chuck Miceli
It's 1am, I have fiction to write! - C.S. Woolley
When I write, my soul sings. - Melissa Marsh
I write to believe in goodness. - Red Haircrow
Allowing Islamic Sharia law into the constitutions of the U.S-created Islamic (!) Republic of Afghanistan and Republic of Iraq in 2004 and 2005 was as foolhardy as it would have been to write emperor-worship and Shinto militarism into Japan's 1946 constitution. - Robert Spencer
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. - Gabriel García Márquez
A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ... - C.J. Heck
I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die. - Ronald Baatz
Some may say I did not write well...but no one can say I did not write...that is all that matters. One must attempt the things they desire and in the attempt, master their fear of failure for the only definitive failure is to never try. - Shelley K. Wall
Write what you want, everything else is gravy - Padraic Gyatt
The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination. - Terry Lander
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. - May Sarton
As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives them their souls. - Scott Borgman
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. - W. Somerset Maugham
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, '.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings. Stanley Kunitz - End of Summer
You need two things to write a great book: imagination and inclination. Without one, your book will be boring; without the other, your book won't get finished at all. - Ellie Firestone
Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on. - Nirav Sanchaniya
When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law. - Carla H. Krueger
What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future. - Toba Beta
Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. - Alexandra Cruz
You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words. - Joseph Hunt
Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story. - Debasish Mridha
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. - Sherman Alexie
Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul. - Daniel Marques
Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven......I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event. - Harold Brodkey
Anyone can write but not everyone can crystallize that perfect moment which can make a heart skip a beat and dig deep into one's soul." - Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo' s Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo
Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already? - Richelle E. Goodrich
Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something. - shashidhar sa
Write about the dream you see during consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
I write the sacred words from wondering. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. - Howard Nemerov
I don't write poems to melt your heart.I write them,so our heartscan melt together. - Subhan Zein
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better. - Nicholaa Spencer
The thing I write will be the thing I write. - Steve Shilstone
Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life - Anamika Mishra
No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it. - Moffat Machingura
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories. - Elmore Leonard
You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you. - Shannon L. Alder
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion. - Elizabeth Reyes
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions. - Paul Haggis
Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute. - Jennifer v Clancy
I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself. - Anna Kamieńska
Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn't? - Nema Al-Araby
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems. - James Broughton
Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper. - Jonas Eriksson
We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms. - Kevin Fuller
Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself. - Christopher Hitchens
Write about the dream you see during wakefulness. - Debasish Mridha
The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words. - Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
I write to reach eternity - James Jones
When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book? - Pat Conroy
Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing. - Giando Sigurani
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. - Hector Berlioz
To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams. - Rob Shepherd
I read and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. - A. Lee Martinez
I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned. - Jenim Dibie
You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing - Brandon Reece Taylor
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. - Hortense Calisher
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian - William Faulkner
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. - Tennessee Williams
Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine. - Adam Rex
Don't write to sell, write to tell. - Jonas Eriksson
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. - John Banville
Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages. - Amitav Chowdhury
I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. - George Orwell
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to. - Carl Van Doren
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. - Flannery O'Connor
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. - Lawrence Clark Powell
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. - Flannery O'Connor
If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner. - Carla H. Krueger
When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in. - Debasish Mridha
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind. - Carla H. Krueger
I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. - A.D. Posey
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. - Ray Bradbury
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. - Susan Sontag
Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy. - Nicole Sager
no one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself. - Desi Puspitasari
You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. - John Rogers
Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. - Madeleine L'Engle
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. - Sinclair Lewis
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. - Charles Bukowski
Create history and write your own. - Amit Abraham
Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write. - Johnny Rich
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all. - Annie Dillard
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde
If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time. - Kamand Kojouri
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. - Benjamin Franklin
She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'. - Kamand Kojouri
She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen. - Christopher Poindexter
To write you into poems,and make you unerasable. - Vivid Darkness
When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience. - Oliver
Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about. - Austin Penman
Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities. - Pablo
... (lady i willtouch you with my mind.) Touchyou, that is all/lightly and you utterly will becomewith infinite care/ the poem which i do not write. - E.E. Cummings
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. - Martin Luther
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem. - Dejan Stojanovic
I am free to dream.I am free to love.I am free to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When I Find Myself in A Depressed State, I Try and Write to Feel Better. However, If Writing Doesn't Work, Then You Can Almost Always Catch Me Watching Cartoons on Television, Like Scooby-Dooby-Do or The Munster’s. Unfortunately, I Am Watching These Programs Nearly Every Day. - Chris Mentillo
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. - William Golding
It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great. - Primadonna Angela
When asked for advice on how to write a short story, Carlos Cortés responded, No advice. Every writer has to exorcise his own demons. - Carlos Cortés
While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow. - Whitaker Chambers
Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart - Munia Khan
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living. - Kim Krizan
Write what you believe to be true; don’t worry about who agrees or disagrees with you. - Debasish Mridha
Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer. - Lori Goodwin
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told. - Frank McCourt
May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday... and be together forever! - Anamika Mishra
I only wish to read, think and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea. - David Belasco
No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD. - John Raptor
If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds. - Richelle E. Goodrich
People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously. - Paul Graham
Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses. - Jack M. Bickham
I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write. - Lorrie Moore
When you write from the heart, it is always beautiful. - Debasish Mridha
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading. - Steve Lopez
I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other. - Felisberto Hernández
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa
I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings. - Arti Honrao
If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence. - Linda W. Yezak
I don't write stories, I write characters. - Bhavya Kaushik
Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own. - Majid Kazmi
If something cames out from your mind it doesn't matter is it in the morning so early or it's too late for example it's nigh or you are outside with friends spend few minutes and write this down you could make something incrediable. - Deyth Banger
I am determined to write daily. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.) - Jen Lynn Anderson
Write something the skeptics will sneer at. - Marty Rubin
I write with all my heart - Ursula K. Le Guin
To write simply is as difficult as to be good. - W. Somerset Maugham
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it - Natalie Goldberg
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly. - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
I personally believe that one learns to write by writing. - Jack Jordan
If you do not have the strength to forgive,then compel themselves and continue in that, do not write bad words.For all that you write, is your own burden, you're gonna wear.So just write nice! - Sanel Alić
I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it - William Meikle
Begin to read, write and think. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do. - Karris Callahan
Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact. - Saru Singhal
There are more writers who read than readers who write. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I write books, bitch! - Junnita Jackson
I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants. - Fierce Dolan
Trust me, I write fiction. - Rob Mahan
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. - Maurice Sendak
We write by the light of every story we have ever read. - Richard Peck
Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day - C.S. Woolley
If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall. - Morrissey
She was starmetal bones with kaleidoscope eyes. A cracked framework of unique beauty, a patchwork portrait filled with swirling brush strokes, an amalgamation of delicate light and detailed shatter. I could write a novel about the way she breathes. - Hubert Martin
Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live! - Helen Deakin
I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. - Lori Lesko
When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again. - Kai Strand
I write to find out what I'm talking about. - Edward Albee
I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes. - Justine Larbalestier
I think. I write. I am. - Himmilicious
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. - Robert Hass
Life tells you many stories... but allows you to write your own.Its your job to make it good" - Victor Ghoshe
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not. - Mark Nepo
Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one - Ted Dekker
I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't. - Angeline Trevena
I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I am counting on them. - Nicholas Trandahl
I wish you all the best in life. Hell, I will even write your obituary for free. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world. - Debasish Mridha
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Anaïs Nin
When Life teaches you a lesson, write it down and use it ASAP. Many destinies have failed because of lack of attention to important details. - Asuni LadyZeal
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats. - Eugen Weber
Why do you write meaningless philosophy? you asked. Because it gives meaning to life, I whispered with deep empathy. - Debasish Mridha
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. - Barbara Kingsolver
Unlike Panic! At the Disco, I write sins AND tradgedies. - Carter Bates
Don't be so impatient in finding love; take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book. - Surgeo Bell
Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. - Temple Emmet Williams
Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write. - Elena Ferrante
Its weird how i dream things that are worth writing.Its like God is writing them into my mind while i am sleeping and the moment i woke up i know i have to write what i dreamt - Tebogo Phakedi
If you are going to write a book,Make sure it is going to be worth reading . - Book Editor Angelina
It ain't a crapshoot unless you write crap. - Jonathan O'Brien
you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable - D WordSmith
The desire to write grows with writing. - Desiderius Erasmus
I write out of revenge. - William Goldman
You, man must write exactly as everything rushes into your head and AT ONCE. The pain of writing is just that... - Jack Kerouac
Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write. - M. Kirin
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. - Margaret Mitchell
I write for the beauty of the printed word"from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO - Anthony Antek
To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing! - David Maxwell
To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live". - Jane Evershed
we do not write as we want but as we can - W. Somerset Maugham
Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list. - Karen Salmansohn
I don't write to escape .. I write to Indulge - Prabhu Subramanian
I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown. - Shandy L. Kurth
Just write it,Because it is the next best thing of the world. - Newpostcard
We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace. - Vincent Louis Carrella
Writers live in the world to write the sacred words. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself. - Jeanette Michelle
If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. - George Gordon Byron
For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening. - Dan Kennedy
When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it. - T.A. Cline
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book and that he did not learn it better. - Friedrich Nietzsche
To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... that's how I write the horror. It's very complicated. - Deyth Banger
Write what speaks to your soul. - A.D. Posey
If you write it down, you can make it happen. - Staness Jonekos
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. - Jean Anouilh
If you want to write about life, you have to write about death. - Marty Rubin
The space where I write is in my head, I suppose. - Sara Sheridan
I don't write to escape reality, but to show others how to better embrace it. ~ KAL - Keturah Lamb
The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it. - Henri Michaux
A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you. - A.R. Voss
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. - Napoleon Hill
I don’t believe he deserves the thousands of poems I’ve written about him, but life doesn’t follow rules. We do things for people who don’t necessarily deserve it. But we liked it, we loved it and fell in love enough to write about it. - Dominic Riccitello
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. - Gertrude Stein
Let's be honest, honest it's important. I don't care about you, don't say bullshit and if there isn't any important thing please don't write me. - Deyth Banger
You can't write a poem until you live. - Shannon Lynette
date a girl who reads a book,that she can write her own fairytale having you as her hero in love and progress . - litymunshi
Mozart liked to write letters while on the loo. He wrote, "I think it only fitting to write while shitting." This gave me the idea of, "I think it only fitting to read while ..." Who says men can't multitask? - Peter Rogers
If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will - Stanley Victor Paskavich
If you don't write, then read. - Sylvia L'Namira
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. - Garth Nix
The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best. - Paul Babickii
You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I go with the flow but I write against it. - Tamara Jasmine Burrell
Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it! - K.D. Faerydae
Shut up and write. - K.A. Laity
If you wish to be a writer, write. - Epictetus
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer
To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records. - Sarah Manguso
Write as though your life depended on it. - Jill Telford
when i'm reading the bible its feels like im the one who write it. - iloveyouliketheocean
the main thing is to make history not to write it - Otto von Bismarck
We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write. - Cristen Rodgers
Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it. - Stephanie Connolly
Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success. - Bobby Darnell
Write from the heart… always. - A.D. Posey
You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts; it will be beautiful. - Debasish Mridha
The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense. - Bryan Way
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. - Robert Penn Warren
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel. - James M. Cain
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - "Meglio scrivere per se stessi e non avere un pubblico piuttosto che scrivere per gli altri e non essere se stessi". - Cyril Connolly
You can be taught to write you can’t be taught to be an artist - John Geddes
‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes. - Simone de Beauvoir
The story is always better than your ability to write it. - Robin McKinley
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. - Michel de Montaigne
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. - Anna Quindlen
I write because I know magic happens - Anamika Mishra
You are the best book you could ever write phi - rassool jibraeel snyman
I don't write for a living. I live to write. - Marwa Ayad
Just as "normal" as anyone... only I write my thoughts out on paper & illustrate a world of Romance in your mind as you read my creations. ~ A. L. Woodz - Angel L. Woodz
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. - Stephen King
Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house. - Charles F. Lummis
Read; explore; write; read; explore; write; read... - David Doyle
Write as if Time will erase every word. - Marty Rubin
Drink the ecstasy of life and write about it. - Debasish Mridha
Write something today that you future self will be proud of. - T.N. Suarez
Religious people never believe I write books. Someone should tell them books aren't only produced in monasteries anymore. - Daniel Marques
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write. - Grace Paley
The more I write, the less I understand why. - Marty Rubin
I write so I don’t call you. - Jennifer Elisabeth
GOD Forgave you and GOD forgave me so you and I need to always forgive those who offend us and curse us and speak and write lies about us. - Errol Anthony Smythe.
How can you write if you can't cry? - Ring Lardner
I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Angeline M. Bishop
If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life. - Debasish Mridha
I could write novels about her forever. Maybe when I die I will end up in the poem with her writing more poems about our times together. The Diary - Jeremy Limn
I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it. - H. Raven Rose
You are the writer of your life story; so don’t forget to write the best one. - Debasish Mridha
All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. - Clarice Lispector
Write the book you want to read - Austin Kleon