Quotation Explorer - 'Write'

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity. - John F. Kennedy

In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories. - Debasish Mridha

Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy. - Nicole Sager

You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day. - Nema Al-Araby

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. - Samuel Goldwyn

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. - David M. Ogilvy

Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live! - Helen Deakin

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining. - Noël Coward

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. - Alice Walker

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. - A. Lee Martinez

Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us. - Jessica Hopper

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel. - Melody Robinette

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write. - Gustave Flaubert

I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective. - Robin Sacredfire

Write as if Time will erase every word. - Marty Rubin

When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me. - Toni Morrison

Not afraid to write about my past to inspire your future - Jordone Branch

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do. - Kurt Vonnegut

I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. - Brian A. McBride

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines. - James Richardson

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. - Cathy Guisewite

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast. - Peter James West

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again. - George R.R. Martin

What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret. - Gail Sher

You ask me why I write. You might as well ask me why I breathe. I need oxygen to feed my body and ink to feed my soul. - Bryce Main

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. - Jean Anouilh

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything. - John Irving

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest. - John Berryman

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time. - Sandra Brown

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. - Socrates

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain! - Deena Metzger

I write, write and write but I can't find words that define what I feel inside. - Azereth Skivel

The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily. - Lailah Gifty Akita

poetry is the tombstone of experience,nothing i write is my own.~from "the damned - D.W.Metz

Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty - Cucuk Espe

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. - Adrienne Rich

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. - Barbara Kingsolver

Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers. - Kahil Gibran

Por que en las epocas oscurasse escribe con tinta invisible?Why in the darkest agesdo they write with invisible ink? - Pablo Neruda

Write about the desire you dare to dream. - Debasish Mridha

When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in. - Debasish Mridha

I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into. - Turcois Ominek

Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it - Jason Calder

I think. I write. I am. - Himmilicious

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down. - Neil Gaiman

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. - J. Nozipo Maraire

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it. - Stephanie Connolly

Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook) - Steven Heighton

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. - Franz Kafka

I write because I cannot NOT write. - Charlotte Brontë

I don't write to chase away my demons ~I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war! - Muse

I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No. - Cypher Lx

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong. - Sarah Gilbert

I write to remind me of the experiences, fictional or non-fictional, that flows a bit of selfless truths. For the me in the ‘I’, or the me through your eyeballs, it is a serum to separate the lumpiness in my heart. - James Emlund

However, the primary job of a servant of God is to speak or to write words to convict people of God's truth. So, in the speaking or in the writing of words, he witnesses for God. - Richard T. Ritenbaugh

I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world toward me. - Gavriil Stiharul

Write as though your life depended on it. - Jill Telford

...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. - Angelica Banks

At X-Feer, we teach how to solve problems not how to write a code because that's the most important thing in coding. - Ahmed Abu Taha

Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer. - Lori Goodwin

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination. - Terry Lander

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do. - Karris Callahan

The only way to get the ending you want is to write your own story. - Ashley Ford

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write - Munia Khan

I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough. - Kirk Wilson

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

Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again. - Italo Calvino

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

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

Receptionist: How do you write women so well?Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability. - Melvin Udall played by Jack Nicholson in AS GOOD AS IT GETS.

Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one - Ted Dekker

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.- - Nina Jean Slack

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications - Linda F. Radke

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. - Debasish Mridha

The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street. - James Jones

I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control. - C.S. Woolley

Writers don’t write about just anybody. - A.D. Posey

For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. - Grantland Rice

I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothing to say. - Enrique Tessieri

The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written. - David Alejandro Fearnhead

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. - Stephen King

Begin to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it."[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.] - Don Henley

Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life. - Debasish Mridha

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one. - John Steinbeck

Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith. - M. Kirin

I write--because I must write. - Taryn A. Taylor

When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation. - A.D. Posey

I'm a writer. I write stuff. - Kevin J.J. Carpenter

Don’t panic. If you write, you’ll be a writer. - Whitney Otto

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses. - Jack M. Bickham

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip. - Elmore Leonard

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality. - M.T. Bass

You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist - John Geddes

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 write to find out what I'm talking about. - Edward Albee

Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly. - Debasish Mridha

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

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. - Isaac Asimov

My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

You tend to become like that, what you like and respect. Write down your goals and take action to make them happen. Expect the best and work for the best. Devote yourself to making your life blossom for success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two. - Shannon Celebi

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. - Nikki Giovanni

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. - Marvin Harris

I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read 'Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic now'. - Martijn Benders

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. - Ernest Hemingway

The thing I write will be the thing I write. - Steve Shilstone

The secret to writing a book is starting on page one and not stopping until you write the words "The End". - Bryan Koepke

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. - Lawrence Wright

Begin to read, write and think. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'. - Jeffrey Carver

This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write on, and then another, ruining people like they’re pages, like they are somehow replaceable. Because that will only leave our delicate and fragile selves into a tattered mess. - Heema Shirvaikar

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can. - Kat Unda

EVERYONE’S LIFE IS A STORY TO TELL HOW GOOD YOU MAKE IT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE TO MANY IN THE WORLD IT IS SIMPLE TRY TO WRITE A BETTER STORY OF YOUR SELF STORY OF LIFE IS FULL OF BLANK PAGES HOW YOU FILL IT MAKES WHAT WE ARE ? Dr T.V.Rao MD - Dr.T.V.Rao MD

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it. - Josh Lieb

From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. - George Orwell

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath. - Ludwig Boltzmann

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken."[on Twitter, July 17, 2012] - Scott Lynch

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity. - Napoléon Bonaparte

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. - Earl Wilson

IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be. - Shiree McCarver

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously. - Paul Graham

Write it as a dream, read it as a goal. - Sakurai Sho

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to. - Lindsay Lohan

You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story. - Angela Banks

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me. - Theodora Goss

If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author. - Dani Harper

I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word you write too many times suddenly doesn't look right anymore. I will try that. - Kate McGahan

True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories. - Don Roff

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish. - Keith Donohue

Only write if you can't not. - Samuel Shem

If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write. - Richard B. Knight

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company. - Eliza Green

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. - Jesse Stuart

I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write. - Laini Taylor

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it? - Tammy Mentzer Brown

When we try to contain reality, to define it, to write down its laws, we fail. We should recognise the universe its right to be unpredictable! - Rossana Condoleo Rossana Condoleo - www.rossanacondoleo.com

I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew. - Kamand Kojouri

I write to reach eternity - James Jones

To you who eat a lot of rice because you’re lonely, To you who sleep a lot because you’re bored, To you who cry a lot because you are sad, I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornerned like you would chew on rice.Anyway, life is something that you need to digest. - Chun Yang Hee

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about. - Julie Wright

I write so I don’t call you. - Jennifer Elisabeth

Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest. - Shannon L. Alder

GOD Forgave you and GOD forgave me so you and I need to always forgive those who offend us and curse us and speak and write lies about us. - Errol Anthony Smythe.

You were meant to write this book. - M. Kirin

You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you. - Shannon L. Alder

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. - Katherine Anne Porter

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever. - Carla H. Krueger

Always write to change society for the better.You will go, but it will live as a treasure forever. - Debasish Mridha

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O’Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905) - O. Henry

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. - Tom Stoppard

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. - David Sedaris

I write to express my love for the humanity. - Debasish Mridha

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know. - Don Murray

As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

Mine is the poverty of angels. I just don't give a damn about possessions and the like... What need have I for objects and luxury? I write, and that's enough.

Just as "normal" as anyone... only I write my thoughts out on paper & illustrate a world of Romance in your mind as you read my creations. ~ A. L. Woodz - Angel L. Woodz

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life. - Julia Cameron

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible. - Mark Twain

Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book. - Mark Siegel

Some writers write about love; some writers write with love. - Debasish Mridha

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write. - Fran Lebowitz

I write to give strength to my spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. - Clarice Lispector

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does - Groucho Marx

I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading? - Dean Bokhari

i write, because not breathing is not an option. - Monice Mitchell Simms

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you. - A.R. Voss

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. - Cecil Day-Lewis

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. - John Banville

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself. - Anna Kamieńska

The imagination of creative thought can be a crazy place,this giving reason to write it down to try and make sense of it all. - Helen Ingram

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write. - Gabriel Fielding

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. - Pam Houston

Write from the heart… always. - A.D. Posey

I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down. - Toba Beta

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. - Henry David Thoreau

Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting. - Roman Payne

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. - Quentin Tarantino

If you don't read you will have nothing to write. - Debasish Mridha

Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail. - Fabrizio de André

If you write anything with using same color of ink on same colors page.Then don't blame eyes for not able to read. - Yaganesh Derasari

Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI can't find otherwiseexcept humiliation? Which I no longerneed. - Margaret Atwood

Yes, writing comes easy for me and it's also a painful, arduous process. I love writing. I hate writing. I never want to write again, and I want to write all day, everyday. - Tyrone Jaeger

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep. - Astrid 'Artistikem' Cruz

I think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so. You're in a rock band – what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no I won't. - Bono

Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn't? - Nema Al-Araby

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them. - Milan Kundera

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses. - Calvin Trillin

When I want to read a novel, I write one. - Benjamin Disraeli

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE. - Joss Whedon

I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself - Virginia Woolf

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World. - Patrick Nowell-Smith

I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write - Ellie Rose McKee

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. - Rainer Maria Rilke

There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write. - Sarah Hepola

It feels great to read but greater to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else. - Patricia Highsmith

If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence. - Linda W. Yezak

Write like it matters, and it will. - Libba Bray

If anything viewed as negative has happened on your journey thus far, turn the page, create a new chapter, and write your own positive story. Then, bless humanity with the wisdom you have gained by traveling through the experience. - Molly Friedenfeld

Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read. - Chuck Miceli

I gave her love she gave me words to write - RazaZaidi

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle. - Pat Conroy

I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. - Ashly Lorenzana

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. - Ray Bradbury

I wish you all the best in life. Hell, I will even write your obituary for free. - Fakeer Ishavardas

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it. - Moffat Machingura

Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be written with One word. And that word consists of a beauty beyond any measure to man and one of the most beauty creations to grace the presents of man. That one word poem is…….. YOU - Michael Jones

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. - Robert Byrne

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. - Stephen King

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped -- - Charlotte Brontë

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house. - Charles F. Lummis

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."[Keynote Address, University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012)] - Neil Gaiman

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. - Françoise Sagan

...anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit. - P.G. Wodehouse

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. - Charles Caleb Colton

My original intent was to write a horror story about someone who loses his mind and slowly begins to unravel. The story, as I envisioned it, would evoke horror within the context of psychological decay, entropy. - Jupiter Cutter

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up. - Michael Bassey Johnson

As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives them their souls. - Scott Borgman

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something. - Hans Zimmer

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us. - Madeleine L'Engle

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong. - Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart

Create history and write your own. - Amit Abraham

Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself. - A.D. Posey

There's always something to write about. If there's not then you need to live life more aggressively. - Min Kim

It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read. - Richelle E. Goodrich

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call. - A.K. Kuykendall

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool. - Paul McCartney

Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next. - Mie Hansson

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats. - Eugen Weber

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question. - Joss Whedon

The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen. - M.F. Moonzajer

...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly. - Mark Dintenfass

Unlike Panic! At the Disco, I write sins AND tradgedies. - Carter Bates

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion. - Elizabeth Reyes

Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven......I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event. - Harold Brodkey

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. - Juan Ramón Jiménez

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. - W. Somerset Maugham

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well. - Shawn Achor

You are giving me words to write a song and that's even better than butterflies. - Noone

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not. - Francis Bacon

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write. - Sherman Alexie

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal. - Natalie Goldberg

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. - Ray Bradbury

She lives the poetry she cannot write - Larry Wilde

If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it? - S. Kelley Harrell

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories. - Christopher Barzak

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. - Thomas Berger

These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story. - Rebecca Allard

Drink the ecstasy of life and write about it. - Debasish Mridha

No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down. - Diane Setterfield

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual - Virginia Woolf

Only the victor gets to write history; where half of the facts are distorted and the other half invented. - Mamur Mustapha

Until you know who you are you can’t write. - Salman Rushdie

Never write it in C if you can do it in `awk'; Never do it in `awk' if `sed' can handle it; Never use `sed' when `tr' can do the job; Never invoke `tr' when `cat' is sufficient; Avoid using `cat' whenever possible

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future. - Debasish Mridha

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. - Johnny Rich

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there. - Lori Lesko

Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart - Munia Khan

When I sit down to write I actually ask myself, 'Who do you want to be today?' - Richelle E. Goodrich

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone. - Jean Genet

To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful. - Richelle E. Goodrich

You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. - Florence Nightingale

Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing. - Giando Sigurani

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that? - Shandy L. Kurth

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own. - Majid Kazmi

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. - Dorianne Laux

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper. - Erica Jong

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. - Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. - William Shakespeare

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. - Raymond E. Feist

Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages. - Jennifer Murgia

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' - Roy Blount Jr.

In order to write about life, first you must live it! - Ernest Hemingway

I write. See you there. - Barbara Johansen

Be glad that I'm not a horror writer, some people write about it, other make images... but third just create it??? As for me, I have create it from horror up to nightmares! - Deyth Banger

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. - May Sarton

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. - Frances Hodgson Burnett

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving. - Robert Crais

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another. - Sara Sheridan

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. - John F. Kennedy

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say. - Raymond Chandler

I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't. - Angeline Trevena

Write what should not be forgotten. - Isabel Allende

Write because you love to write. - Cindi Lee

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. - Michelle Richmond

If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. - Neil Gaiman

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works. - Ernest Hemingway

I can’t help but to wonder and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can read & write then the opportunities are endless, if you just believe in yourself then anything is possible, you can become anyone and do anything, what’s more is, you can take others with you! - Philip L. Moore

Want to turn your dream in idea? Then write how wonderful it is with all the details. But never forget to plan step by step how to make it a reality. Dream without action does not produce results. - Da Anunciação Marco

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do. - Kenneth Koch

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

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. - Sidney Sheldon

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after - Janet Fitch

I write to make sense of my life."-, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey - John Cheever

I only wish to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. - Richard Peck

I read and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them. - Jazmin Anguiano

The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure. - B.C. Forbes

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'. - Kamand Kojouri

Hurry up, because I'm not sure how much more of your sarcasm I can take before I write a book about it. - Taylor Magnuson

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them. - Daniel Akst

You are the best book you could ever write phi - rassool jibraeel snyman

See the world anew and write down the bones of it. - A.D. Sams

If you write it down, you can make it happen. - Staness Jonekos

I could write novels about her forever. Maybe when I die I will end up in the poem with her writing more poems about our times together. The Diary - Jeremy Limn

When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world. - Debasish Mridha

Write what you want, everything else is gravy - Padraic Gyatt

I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart - John Geddes

Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world. - Debasish Mridha

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

Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write... - Sanhita Baruah

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. - William H. Gass

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it - William Meikle

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. - Patricia Hampl

Write about the beauty of rainbows and the glint of reflected light that can enlighten readers' minds. - Debasish Mridha

(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi") - W.B. Yeats

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to. - Charlotte Eriksson

Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something. - shashidhar sa

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity. - George Ade

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life - Anamika Mishra

All words are written in the same ink,'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same,and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'all over the page, the paper would not be stainednow would I bleed. - Philippe Jaccottet

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing. - Jean Cocteau

Until you begin to write, then you see wonders. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Write until your fingers break. It may be the cure for everything. - Kelly O'Connor McNees

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre. - Don Roff

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up. - William Saroyan

I don't write to escape .. I write to Indulge - Prabhu Subramanian

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. - Cao Yu

I write and read so that I can escape reality, for it is unkind. - Mikaela A. Ingram

Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth. - Kevin James Breaux

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly

The novel we sit down to write, and the one we end up writing may be very different, just as the Jesus we grasp and the Jesus who grasps us may also differ. - Madeleine L'Engle

Life is short. Write naked. - A.D. Posey

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time. - Stephen King

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book. - Richard P. Denney

sad is the poem i will never write - jeet how romentic

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money. - S.E. Hinton

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning... - Walter Mosley

Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel. - Ally Spina

If you want to write about life, you have to write about death. - Marty Rubin

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. - Shannon L. Alder

First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of. - Olawale Robyns

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. - Edward Gibbon

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933] - Cyril Connolly

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. - George Orwell

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa

Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you. - Alice Walker

Write for a cause,NOT APPLAUSEWrite to express,NOT TO IMPRESS.Writing isn’t just about being noticed…IT'S BEING REMEMBERED - T.N. Suarez

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. - Gertrude Stein

You are the author of your success. Every day, you write another page to the chapter of success for you life. Practice at becoming an excellent person, at what you want to be best at. - Mark F. LaMoure

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. - Patti Smith

It is almost impossible to write about those moments and feelings of indescribable joy and ecstasy which only a soul can realize. Your silent, pleasant, and blissful presence often gives me those moments. - Debasish Mridha

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to. - Carl Van Doren

I write because I want to give strength to myself - Anamika Mishra

One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel, Megan had tweeted back.Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the British empire, Laura returned.Writing for me, Megan had typed.I’ll write you a tea fortune.No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good. - L.L. Barkat

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. - James M. Cain

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you. - Flannery O'Connor

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you. - Shirley Jackson

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. - Saul Bellow

Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul. - Daniel Marques

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself. - Jeanette Michelle

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer. - Billy Marshall Stoneking

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

[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see. - Viola Gregg Liuzzo

I write because there are things in me that cannot die. - Sanober Khan

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned. - Melanie Benjamin

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The story is always better than your ability to write it. - Robin McKinley

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. () - Marti Melville

Write her a letter, send her a flower, love only gets old if you let it. - William Chapman

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. - K.J. Parker

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. - Henry David Thoreau

I write to believe in goodness. - Red Haircrow

To write you into poems,and make you unerasable. - Vivid Darkness

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. - Charles Bukowski

Be a great writer when you write your life's song. - Debasish Mridha

I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Angeline M. Bishop

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. - Patrick Rothfuss

Just Because I Write About Horror, And The Supernatural, Etc...Doesn't Mean I Am A Monster Or A Bad Person. - Chris Mentillo

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. - Hector Berlioz

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. - James M. Barrie

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write. - Tom Wolfe

It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great. - Primadonna Angela

Being a writer means you write not only for yourself- but for others as well. That's what makes a writer a writer. - This is my own quote

You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly. - Rebecca Solnit

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. - Ernest Hemingway

A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ... - C.J. Heck

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Still, truth is how I remember it now. In a way, I am changing the past from my desk here in the future as I write. It always happens like this. This is how we all tell our story. - J.D. Radke

We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper. - Sabine Shah

Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. - Nikki Giovanni

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. - Bobby Knight

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. - William Shakespeare

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. - Bashō Matsuo

Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer. - James Kisner

I am a playwright who does not write comedies, or tragedies. - Steven L. Sheppard

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. - Maya Angelou

‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes. - Simone de Beauvoir

For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening. - Dan Kennedy

We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms. - Kevin Fuller

Unlike Panic! At The Disco, I write sins AND Tragedies. - Carter Bates

You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist. - Michael Kroft

Some say Twitter is overrated.Some love it, others hate it.I guess it depends on what you've got,If you have guts to write a funny plot! - Ana Claudia Antunes

I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, '.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings. Stanley Kunitz - End of Summer

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. - William Trevor

What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future. - Toba Beta

Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it. - Kris Rafferty

You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don’t give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so you don’t lose them. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

I write because it's a beautiful habit - Anamika Mishra

We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard. - Teresa Mummert

I am free to dream.I am free to love.I am free to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is Amazing!When I write I am empowered by my thoughts, entertained by my imagination, and enlightened by my wisdom. - Theresa Lewis

When people write you off, just start again as if you don't belong to this world and see miracle happening! - Ramana Pemmaraju

A writer writesregardless...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

Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves. - Mark S. Hertzog

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write. - David Rose

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. - Annie Dillard

They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebetween our loveand their love. - Kamand Kojouri

If I was asked to write a poem about her. Every word I use would end up, being her name. And it would still sound so beautiful and breathtaking to me in the end. - Akshay Vasu

no one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself. - Desi Puspitasari

I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, "My Memoirs. - N.M. Silber

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. - Sylvia Plath

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence. - Cristen Rodgers

If something cames out from your mind it doesn't matter is it in the morning so early or it's too late for example it's nigh or you are outside with friends spend few minutes and write this down you could make something incrediable. - Deyth Banger

And on this night, the last of its kind before we get married to each other at the stroke of 8 tomorrow in the evening, as I walk towards my bed to call the day off, the last puff of wind brought from a fairy-tale land urges me to write this letter as your girlfriend, for one last time. - Debalina Haldar

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor. - Michelle Malkin

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. - George Gordon Byron

Write about the dream you see during wakefulness. - Debasish Mridha

In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night) - Aaron Sorkin

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living. - Kim Krizan

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it. - Heather Armstrong

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy. - Don Roff

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody. - E.A. Bucchianeri

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

Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list. - Karen Salmansohn

Dedication. DEDICATION. That is the only way to become a writer. Write every day. Write until your fingers bleed, your eyes bleed, your soul bleeds. From that blood, stories are born. It's worth it. - Belle DiMonté

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism. - Dave Barry

Its weird how i dream things that are worth writing.Its like God is writing them into my mind while i am sleeping and the moment i woke up i know i have to write what i dreamt - Tebogo Phakedi

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. - Annie Proulx

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between. - Kevin James Breaux

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice. - Carla H. Krueger

Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as well have Christmas-treed the math test. - Thomas Christopher Greene

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. - Don Marquis

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. - Anne Tyler

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper. - Jonas Eriksson

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all. - Annie Dillard

Life tells you many stories... but allows you to write your own.Its your job to make it good" - Victor Ghoshe

Only write a story that only you can write. - Alysha Speer

Write the book you want to read - Austin Kleon

Write what you believe to be true; don’t worry about who agrees or disagrees with you. - Debasish Mridha

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. - Stephen King

I don’t write about you. I describe you. I explain you. - Dominic Riccitello

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in. - Anastasia Bolinder

If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place! - Laurence Bradbury

If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear. - Gordon Atkinson

We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't be so impatient in finding love; take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book. - Surgeo Bell

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. - Anne Frank

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. - William Faulkner

Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won't survive an interview with a journalist or anchorperson." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications. - Linda F. Radke

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later. - Richard Siken

So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that question."[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006] - Joss Whedon

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. - E.L. Doctorow

Anyone can write but not everyone can crystallize that perfect moment which can make a heart skip a beat and dig deep into one's soul." - Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo' s Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. - Mark Twain

Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better. - Richelle E. Goodrich

No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write! - Chrys Fey

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine! - Susan Lendroth

Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact. - Saru Singhal

If you can write; then you are a writer - Rayvon L Browne - Rayvon L. Browne

Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat. - Katrina Monroe

Every day you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter, do it so well such that when others read it; you would still be proud of yourself. - Gugu Mona

Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope. - Nikki Rosen

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have. - Gore Vidal

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. - Chuck Palahniuk

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions. - Paul Haggis

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful. - Brenda Peterson

I write the right. I do the left. - Dominic Riccitello

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book. - Junot Díaz

Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul - Ace Antonio Hall

Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish. - Mo

I am pushing you, even if it’s off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they’re not creative. Bullshit, motherfuckers, you are creative. - Nikki Sixx

I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman. - Betty Friedan

I am insane, does that surprise you? Ha! I think my mind is crumbling, just like crackers. If I had written five minutes earlier I would have wept, if I had written ten minutes earlier I would have told you to leave me alone, if I wait any longer I won’t write at all. - @ neuroticdream Tumblr

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. - Giacomo Casanova

Write as if life has no meanings without writing. - Debasish Mridha

If you do not have the strength to forgive,then compel themselves and continue in that, do not write bad words.For all that you write, is your own burden, you're gonna wear.So just write nice! - Sanel Alić

Don't write to sell, write to tell. - Jonas Eriksson

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure. - Onyi Anyado

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. - Mark Twain

Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture had long since done away with domestic beasts, while food was wholly vegetable or synthetic. - H.P. Lovecraft

If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and will fall in love with life, I would devote all my life and all my strengths to it. - Leo Tolstoy

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. - Robert Hass

I write because I love to play with language. - WH Auden

The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y. - Onyi Anyado

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it - Natalie Goldberg

A match as a penBlood on the floor as inkThe forgotten gauze cover as paperBut what should I write?I might just manage my addressThis ink is strange; it clotsI write you from a prisonin Greece - Alexanderos Panagoulis

Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel. - Barbara Kingsolver

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you. - Onyi Anyado

And the next time I reach for my pen,it won’t be to write about you again.The sun will feel warm on my skin once more,and I will get drunk on the colors of the skyinstead of tasting hangovers dripping from strangers’ lips. - Sade Andria Zabala

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish. - Thomas Wolfe

Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer. - J.D. Cunegan

The Measure of success isn't money or the number of books you write, it is seen in the faces of those you love - Jason W. Blair

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. - Joan Didion

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. - George MacDonald

When one heated exchange (in English) led a commenter to write "Go fuck yourself!" in Lojban, it turned into a lengthy discussion of why he hadn't said what he meant to say, and what the proper Lojban expression for the sentiment might be. - Arika Okrent

Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. - Temple Emmet Williams

The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words. - Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. - Kristen Lamb

We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins. - A.D. Posey

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains. - Joe Biden

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your poetry. - N'Zuri Za Austin

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.

Write something today that you future self will be proud of. - T.N. Suarez

And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life. - Shannon L. Alder

I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul. - Rachel Scott

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from any awkward moments I've figured out an easy way to do this. Nod if you're even slightly interested in getting to know me. Write a ten page explanation if you're not. - Bill Condon

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. - Michel de Montaigne

I shall write peace upon your wings,and you shall fly around the worldso that children will no longer haveto die this way. - Teshima Yusuke 手島悠介

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense. - Bryan Way

I am no blank slate for love to write on.My heart has walls marred with cracks,bloodstains, and bullet holes;graffitied over by past lovers. - John Mark Green

We write by the light of every story we have ever read. - Richard Peck

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.['s Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] - Cormac McCarthy

I will try to write books until I drop dead. - Cornelia Funke

Write down what you want your destiny to be, and in so doing you will live your dreams. - Stephen Richards

the main thing is to make history not to write it - Otto von Bismarck

Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker! - Marja Meijers

While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow. - Whitaker Chambers

When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church. - Sylvia Plath

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. - Charles Peters

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. - English Proverb

I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. - George Orwell

But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it. - Cassandra Clare

You, man must write exactly as everything rushes into your head and AT ONCE. The pain of writing is just that... - Jack Kerouac

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't. - Jeffrey McDaniel

Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it. - Garth Greenwell

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have. - Edward Hirsch

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (How to Write with Style. Essay, 1985) - Kurt Vonnegut

You can't write a poem until you live. - Shannon Lynette

To write simply is as difficult as to be good. - W. Somerset Maugham

The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it - Guido Colombo

Write what you love. Fill your pages with the beating of your own heart, the breath from your own lungs. Live through your characters. Let your characters live through you. Then you will love what you write, and others will, too. - Amanda Emerson

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. - Gabriel García Márquez

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write. - Johnny Rich

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is. - Fred Rogers

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music. - W.H. Auden

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit. - Andre Dubus

If you can’t write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don’t have a clear idea. - David Belasco

No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD. - John Raptor

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. - Emily Dickinson

If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know where you’re going, and each word you write gets you a step closer. - M. Kirin

Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre. - Israelmore Ayivor

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety. - Dick Peterson

I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I’m not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I’d rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening. - James Rozoff

When I write, my soul sings. - Melissa Marsh

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. - Florence Nightingale

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books. - Tara Bray Smith

Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing. - Rainer Maria Rilke

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

If you don't write, then read. - Sylvia L'Namira

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. - W. Somerset Maugham

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go. - Ann Brashares

We write "I love you" on the mouth by the kisses that touch it. (On écrit "je t'aime" sur bouche - Par les bisous qui la touchent.) - Charles de Leusse

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write. - M. Kirin

I write because I can remember and to keep those memories alive. I write for pleasure. I write because I must. - F.M. Burgett

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart. - Bess Streeter Aldrich

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. - Kate DiCamillo

In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore we should write the best prose we can. - James D. Maxon

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it. - T.A. Cline

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction. - Oliver

Everyday you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter do it so well such that if others read it, you would still be proud of yourself. - Gugu Mona

I write to understand what I know. - Kamand Kojouri

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that. - Ashly Lorenzana

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man. - John W. Campbell Jr.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) - John Irving

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence. - Michel Foucault

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write. - Grace Paley

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. - George Gordon Byron

When you speak, your words echo across the room. When you write, your words echo across the ages" Bud GardnerThis is what my books do about stories of the Past, Present and Futur. Enjoy!Visit my page on Amazon.com - Claire Hamelin Manning

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies. - Aisha Mirza

The desire to write grows with writing. - Desiderius Erasmus

Thinking before writing how I feel. That's how I'm able to write all the lies and wrongs. How else can one write something like a fake smile ? - Muhammad Faizan Khan.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Write where you want to go. - A.D. Posey

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about. - Austin Penman

date a girl who reads a book,that she can write her own fairytale having you as her hero in love and progress . - litymunshi

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long. - Sloan Wilson

When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to give them a happy ending. God, the Almighty has created infinite human beings till date and runs all our lives with such ease. He is the BEST WRITER of all. - Shahla Khan

I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven. - Rob Thurman

To write a novel, you need an iron butt. - Richard M. Nixon

I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head. - Lettie Prell

You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there. - Aurora Whittet

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance. - Haruki Murakami

I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is. - Lori R. Lopez

I believe in hope, in what is something called radical hope. I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r - John Green

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply. - Ernest Hemingway

Poetry is not only to write but to express our feelings. - Nupur rane

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. - Anna Quindlen

To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live". - Jane Evershed

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never! - Edna Ferber

We wonder to write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. - Toni Cade Bambara

Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it! - K.D. Faerydae

I write to understand as much as to be understood. - Elie Wiesel

I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life. - Debasish Mridha

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine. - Adam Rex

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. - Lord Brabazon

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