Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

Nora Roberts

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Nora Roberts

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

Octavia E. Butler

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Paul Celan

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.

Peter Hook

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

Paul Ince

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

Richard K. Morgan

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

Suzy Menkes

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

Smokey Robinson

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Sting

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

Terry Brooks

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

Thomas P. Campbell

I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

Ted Danson

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

Tom Odell

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Tom Stoppard

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Kiran Desai

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

Kaki King

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

Ken Livingstone

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

Loudon Wainwright III

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

Louis L'Amour