Quotes of: Write Keyword

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

Octavia E. Butler

The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.

Paul Babicki

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

Paul Haggis

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Quentin Tarantino

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Rita Dove

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.

Rayne Hall

I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?

Shannon Lynette

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

N. Scott Momaday

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

Sara Sheridan

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Sting

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

Sara Zarr

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

Tate Donovan

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

Tama Janowitz

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Taylor Swift

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

Taylor Swift

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

Theodore Sturgeon

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

Joss Whedon

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

Kelley Armstrong

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

Kevin Brockmeier

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Ken Hill

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

Kay Redfield Jamison