Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I ...

What I Loved

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling...

Shannon Hale

For some, like me, writing comes at a price. My best creations were written while I was emotionally ripped open. I've spent some scenes so mentally self-exposed that I could barely see what I was writing. And as I sit here-my heart pounding, heavines...

Jennifer Salaiz

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

Gustav Mahler

At least I can write.

R. L. Stine

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

Emmanuel Lewis

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

David E. Kelley

I tend to write more when I travel.

Jaime Winstone

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Alfred Nobel

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

Gordon Getty

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

Yanni

I mean, I don't write for kids.

Al Yankovic

Hemingway suggested you write the truest sentence you know. I say write the falsest one you don’t know. This is fiction.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969-1989

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858

You said this was only the beginning, I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story.

Write like no one is reading 2

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

Write like no one is reading 2

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

Write like no one is reading

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Zen in the Art of Writing