Quotes of: Write Keyword

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

Alan Bennett

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Augusten Burroughs

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

Andy Gibb

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Anne Rice

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

Anne Rivers Siddons

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Robert Metcalfe

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

Sarah Dessen

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

Sara Sheridan

I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.

Life

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.

Love

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

Love

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

Life

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.

Life

Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!

Life

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

William Landay

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

William Lashner

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

William H. Macy

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Will Rogers

I put my soul into every book I write.

Wilbur Smith

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

William Knowlton Zinsser

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

Zadie Smith