Quotes of: Write Keyword

poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own. ~from "the damned

Life

You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.

Life

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

William Cobbett

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop

William Saroyan

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

Zack Snyder

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

Ben Fountain

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

Nicola Cornick

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never...

The Golden Notebook

I, SINUHE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this. I do not write it to the glory of the gods in the land of Kem, for I am weary of gods, nor to the glory of the Pharaohs, for I am weary of their deeds. I write neither from fear nor from ...

Unknown

Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. All my life I have been suffering for words. Words h...

Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve — not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us. A writer I very much admire is Don DeLillo. At an award...

Joy Williams

A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel and feeling fine, and it is no good writing a whole novel feeling miserable. It has to be both, that mixture of anxiety and ambition, and you...

Martin Amis

Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordin...

John Banville

I write not because I've to, I write because I'm compelled too. I love what I do, I see purpose in the words I write. I see that within myself, there is a way to construct a reality based on my perception of the world. I'm inspired to inspire others ...

Jeremy Limn

Don't demand that what you write in the Nile will be read in the desert.

Ethiopian

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

The Calligraphy of God

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

...[T]he three greatest works are those of , and . These are closely followed by the works of and .

How to Speak and Write Correctly

I feel the most alive when I write.

Awakenings

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

Elizabeth McGovern