Quotes of: Write Keyword

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

John Shirley

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.

Josh Turner

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

John Updike

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

Jeannette Walls

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Chris Ware

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

Christina Westover

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

Daniel Alarcon

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.

David Almond

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

Douglas Coupland

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

David Herbert Donald

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

Daphne Gottlieb

I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've got a fever.

Daphne Gottlieb

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, , July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

David McCullough

If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.

Julia Cameron

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

John Dryden

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Jennifer Egan

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

Janet Fitch

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

John Grisham

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

John Irving

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Jamaica Kincaid