Quotes of: I-write Keyword

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

C. Day Lewis

Good writing just isn't that common.

Eric Flint

Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines.

Benjamin R. Smith

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

Hannibal Buress

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

Roy Ayers

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.

A.M. Homes

Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.

Amy Joy

If you don’t make time for writing, writing won’t make time for you.

Life

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

James Ellroy

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Gregg Easterbrook

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

Nia Vardalos

I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.

Patti Hansen

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

Raymond Carver

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Sally Phillips

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

Tony Hillerman

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

Tom Stoppard

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Kris Kristofferson

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

Kelly Reilly

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Kurt Vonnegut