Quotes of: Write Keyword

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.

David Tennant

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

Seamus Heaney

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Dinaw Mengestu

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

Cassandra Clare

The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.

Sophie Kinsella

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

Gordon Parks

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

Maynard James Keenan

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

Adele

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

Laurie Colwin

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Elizabeth Strout

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

Charles King

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Calvin Trillin

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Henry Petroski

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.

Irwin Shaw

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

John Cleese

Every life is a unique story written by an unique person who is living it. So write it fearlessly, write it better.

Debasish Mridha

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

Dav Pilkey

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

Ernest Hemingway

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin