Quotes of: Write Keyword

I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world.

K.M. Randall

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Karen Thompson Walker

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

Luc Ferrari

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.

Linda Ronstadt

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Lou Reed

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

Larry Wall

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

Martin Amis

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Maya Angelou

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

Macklemore

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Michael Caine

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

Mohsin Hamid

You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

Mick Jones

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

Mary Karr

If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.

Mitch Leigh

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

Richard Price

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

Rudy Rucker

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

Shannon L. Alder

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

Stephen E. Ambrose