Quotes of: Write Keyword

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

A. S. Byatt

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

Michael Ondaatje

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

Matt Ridley

Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells.

Marty Rubin

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

Michael Shanks

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

Marguerite Young

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

Alanis Morissette

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

Alanis Morissette

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Lewis Carroll

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

P. D. James

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

BD Wong

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

Matthew Nable

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Noel Redding

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

Paul Auster

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Ben Stiller

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Roddy Doyle

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

Nick Flynn

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Helen Gurley Brown

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

John Steinbeck

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

Octavia Butler