Quotes of: I-write Keyword

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

Alison Moyet

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.

Love

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

William Gibson

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Chaim Potok

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

Geraldine Brooks

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surp...

Anne Lamott

First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.

The Miracle

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

Octavia Butler

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

Per Petterson

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

Peter Temple

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

R.J. Dennis

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

Kathy Griffin

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Karen Thompson Walker

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Maya Angelou

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out

Michael Ondaatje

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

Maya Rudolph

What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done... I get as much writing done at home before I go into work.

John O'Keefe

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

Andrew Motion

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction.

Philippa Gregory

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

Harry Mathews

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

Shane Smith