Quotes of: Write Keyword

Don’t wait. Writers are the only artists I know of who expect to get somewhere by waiting. Everyone knows you have to dance to be a dancer, you have to sing to be a singer, you have to act to be an actor, but far too many people seem to believe tha...

Providence

I want to write something that means something to someone...the reminds them of what a second, a moment, really is...or that assures them that we are just as lost as they are. I want to write an emotion they are too fragile to let loose, so that my w...

Augusten Burroughs

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.

A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

Gabriel Fielding

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

A. J. Liebling

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

Deb Caletti

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

Ashwin Sanghi

Make time to write every day. The writing muscle is like any other muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes.

Bake, Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

Siri Hustvedt

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in...

Serge Schmemann

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

Erin Morgenstern

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grai...

Deena Metzger

Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes it out of the realm of conjuring where we stand on the rock of isolation, begging the winds for inspiration, and it makes it something as do...

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, e...

Theodora Goss

Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it--make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or make it happen over again, if you were writing about hi...

Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

I write what's given me to write.

Philip Levine

I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.

Robert Cecil Day-Lewis

The thing I write will be the thing I write.

Steve Shilstone

I write - and then I write some more.

Frank Delaney