Quotes of: I-write Keyword

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

Neil Gaiman

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

Chelsea Cain

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

Arthur Phillips

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

E. L. Doctorow

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Mark Haddon

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

Conor Oberst

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ , February 25, 1933]

Cyril Connolly

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

Jackie Collins

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

Jack Kent Cooke

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

Eugene Ionesco

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Erica Jong

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

Brian Wilson

To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.

D.A. Botta

Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again.

Debasish Mridha

You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.

Joseph Eastwood

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

Jamie Hewlett

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

John Lydon

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

Nicholas Sparks

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Karl Marx