Quotes of: Write Keyword

Stop being self-conscious when you write. You are the expert about the world you are creating, no one else. So be bold and write on.

Nirav Sanchaniya

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

Octavia Butler

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

Paul Auster

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing... I'm just following these people around and taking notes.

P. Anastasia

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

Pat Barker

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

Patti Davis

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

Patricia Reilly Giff

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

Per Petterson

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

Paul Schrader

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

Peter Temple

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Ray Bradbury

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

Rachel Dratch

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

R.J. Dennis

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

A writer writes regardless... even though... notwithstanding... despite... at any rate... anyhow... nevertheless... in the face of... undeterred by... heedless of... and because. The true writer simply continues to write.

Richelle E. Goodrich

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Robert Hass

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

Ryan Lilly

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

Sue Grafton

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

Spike Jonze

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Siddhartha Mukherjee