Quotes of: Write Keyword

I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But I write, I shall slowly excel at it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

Salman Rushdie

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Mary Garden

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

Bruce Dickinson

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

Jack Lemmon

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

Walter Gilbert

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Clifford Geertz

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

Colum McCann

Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.

H. Raven Rose

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

Jacqueline Susann

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

Dan Brown

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

David Chuka

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.

Diane Setterfield

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

Thomas Steinbeck

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Samantha Morton

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

Shawn Colvin

If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.

Life

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

Kristen Stewart

Writing only leads to more writing.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do wit...

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