Quotes of: I-write Keyword

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

Amy Sedaris

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

Work

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

Danny Strong

I gain nothing but pleasure from writing fiction; short stories are foreplay, novellas are heavy petting – but novels are the full monte. Frankly, if I didn't enjoy writing novels I wouldn't do it – the world hardly needs any more and I can think...

Will Self

When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me wh...

Roddy Doyle

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Amy Tan

My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

Kate Atkinson

An artist must either give up art or develop.

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965

She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.

I Can't Stop Drinking About You

I write sappy love poetry. Mostly about bleeding trees. 

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create.

Write like no one is reading 2

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

Write like no one is reading 2

My lips still quiver when I think about her smile.

Write like no one is reading 2

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

Neil Sheehan

I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.

The Prolific Penman

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

Philip Yancey

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

Ree Drummond

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

Ronald Harwood

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.

Tracey Emin

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge.

Tina St. John

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Tom Stoppard