Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

Tom Petty

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

Simone Elkeles

Young Celie: Write! Nettie: What? Young Celie: Write! Nettie: Nothing but death can keep me from it!

The Color Purple

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

Shelby Foote

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

Ne-Yo

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

Johnny Rivers

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

Brian Wilson

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

Bruce Vilanch

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

Alan Bennett

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Augusten Burroughs

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

Andy Gibb

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Anne Rice

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

Anne Rivers Siddons

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Robert Metcalfe

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

Sarah Dessen

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

Sara Sheridan

I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.

Life

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.

Love

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

Love

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

Life