Quotation Explorer - 'Write'

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. - Benjamin Franklin

If you can read, write and think, you have liberated yourself from any darkness into the wonderful light. - Lailah Gifty Akita

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness. - Franz Kafka

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

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 gave her love she gave me words to write - RazaZaidi

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you. - J.R. Tompkins

If you don't write it down, it never happened.Cathy (& Jack) Ryan - Tom Clancy

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

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

When you write from the heart, it is always beautiful. - Debasish Mridha

Hurting the person who hurt you won't heal your pain. Let them go. Karma will deal with them you don't have to write the script for the universe. - Paula Heller Garland

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

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

Some may say I did not write well...but no one can say I did not write...that is all that matters. One must attempt the things they desire and in the attempt, master their fear of failure for the only definitive failure is to never try. - Shelley K. Wall

I don't write poems to melt your heart.I write them,so our heartscan melt together. - Subhan Zein

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

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. - Kerouac

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book! - Kerry Greenwood

Write what should not be forgotten. - Isabel Allende

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

If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner. - Carla H. Krueger

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. - Christina Westover

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

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

You are not a story, your life is a story and youare the writer, write an inspiring one. - Wordions

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book. - M. Kirin

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told. - Frank McCourt

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

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

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. - Craig Claiborne

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

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. - Anne Fadiman

I only wish to read, think and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed. - Ashley Sanders

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

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen. - Michael Bassey Johnson

If you wish to be a writer, write. - Epictetus

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

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

when i write of you, my deari am holding youin the most exquisiteways. - Sanober Khan

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

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

I write to shed my sacred sorrows. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist. - Carl Henegan

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

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

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

Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success. - Bobby Darnell

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

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

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

When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt. - M.F. Moonzajer

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

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind. - Carla H. Krueger

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

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

I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself when I published my first novel, The Bluest Eye. - Toni Morrison

I write books, bitch! - Junnita Jackson

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

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

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

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time. - Kamand Kojouri

you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable - D WordSmith

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

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

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

The desire to write grows with writing. - Desiderius Erasmus

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

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. - Benjamin Disraeli

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. - Lady Gaga

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

When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness. - George Ivanovic

... (lady i willtouch you with my mind.) Touchyou, that is all/lightly and you utterly will becomewith infinite care/ the poem which i do not write. - E.E. Cummings

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

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

As long as you write, you'll never be lonely. - Donna Lynn Hope

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

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. - Sir Winston Churchill

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

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. - Meister Eckhart

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love.)Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living. - Daniel Pennac

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel - Joan Didion

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

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

If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!) - Sarah J. Pepper

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

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

She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen. - Christopher Poindexter

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. - Anaïs Nin

My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise. - Sinovuyo Nkonki

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. - Hortense Calisher

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. - Flannery O'Connor

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. - Howard Nemerov

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

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.

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

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more. - Jasper Fforde

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

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

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

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

I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones. - Santosh Kalwar

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

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

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

I don't write to escape reality, but to show others how to better embrace it. ~ KAL - Keturah Lamb

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

For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt. - Martin Cosgrove

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

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

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

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

We write the earth we stand upon. - Laura K. Cowan

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

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

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

Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips. - Jennifer Webb

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

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

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

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. - Sinclair Lewis

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

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

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

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher. - Frédéric Chopin

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

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. - Madeleine L'Engle

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

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish. - Don Roff

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

I go with the flow but I write against it. - Tamara Jasmine Burrell

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

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

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

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

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

Write because you love to write. - Cindi Lee

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer. - Jean M. Auel

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

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

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. - Rebecca West

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

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

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

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.

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

A write only begins a book.A reader finishes it. - Samuel Johnson

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

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action. - Shannon L. Alder

It's 1am, I have fiction to write! - C.S. Woolley

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.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. - Isadora Duncan

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

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing. - Jack Jordan

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

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

Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day - C.S. Woolley

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

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

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. - William Howard Taft

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

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

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

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in. - Rayne Hall

I don't want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin. - Mary Sage Nguyen

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

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 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

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

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

I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves! - Anton Szandor LaVey

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it. - H. Raven Rose

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

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. - Blaise Pascal

No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it. - Richelle E. Goodrich

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief - William Zinsser

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

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

I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown. - Shandy L. Kurth

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

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

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. - Margaret Atwood

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write? - Gilles Deleuze

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

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. - James Russell Lowell

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 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

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

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

Why do you write meaningless philosophy? you asked. Because it gives meaning to life, I whispered with deep empathy. - Debasish Mridha

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

Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some will love it and some will hate it, but there will always be at least one reader who needed it and that's all that matters! - S.L. Morgan

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

When I Find Myself in A Depressed State, I Try and Write to Feel Better. However, If Writing Doesn't Work, Then You Can Almost Always Catch Me Watching Cartoons on Television, Like Scooby-Dooby-Do or The Munster’s. Unfortunately, I Am Watching These Programs Nearly Every Day. - Chris Mentillo

Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love. - David Patterson

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different. - Uma Nnenna

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

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

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

And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins. - Book of Mormon

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 are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty. - Debasish Mridha

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

I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page. - Ron Koertge

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me. - Daniel Willey

I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die. - Ronald Baatz

The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story. - Shandy L. Kurth

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

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

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me? - Elizabeth Gilbert

I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written. - Mary M. Lund

Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."--- Author of Flotsam - Stephanie Skeem

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

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

Allowing Islamic Sharia law into the constitutions of the U.S-created Islamic (!) Republic of Afghanistan and Republic of Iraq in 2004 and 2005 was as foolhardy as it would have been to write emperor-worship and Shinto militarism into Japan's 1946 constitution. - Robert Spencer

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

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

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

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. - Lawrence Clark Powell

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

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

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. - Fred Allen

So we must daily keep things wound: that is, we must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain. - Madeleine L'Engle

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good - Thornton Wilder

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

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 books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us dismantle the notion that a woman cannot be free with her sexuality or that she needs a man to make her complete. This one is for the little girls with hearts on their sleeves. - Crystal Evans

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

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

Life is God's Novel. Let Him write it. - -Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

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

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

A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race. - Dee Dee M. Scott

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

Write before the sun comes up. - A.D. Posey

Write the book you want to read - Austin Kleon

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings. - Joy Williams

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

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly. - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer. - Pat Pattison

I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don't really care. - Briana Blair

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. - Charlotte Eriksson

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

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

I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is kicking my ass. It's what writers must do. - Don Roff

I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I am counting on them. - Nicholas Trandahl

It meant different things to different people, but somehow it meant them all intensely. Shostakovich's words just confuse the issue. His symphony itself is what remains. Listen to it. It is your symphony to write with him. - M.T. Anderson

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. - Beryl Pfizer

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

I write for the beauty of the printed word"from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO - Anthony Antek

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

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters. - Stephen Chbosky

So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. - Neil Gaiman

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

One of the things I’ve learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them. - 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

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

There was a young woman named Jenny, Whose limericks weren't worth a penny. Her rhythm and rhyme Were perfectly fine But whenever she tried to write any, She always had one line too many. - Anonymous

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

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

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

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 began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written. - William Gibson

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

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 couldn't suppress a smile. It was inconceivable that I was here, in a place as extraordinary as the fantasy books Sophie loved. Maybe...just maybe those stories are based on a measure of truth. Maybe one day I'd write our story. - Heather L. L. FitzGerald

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

The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories. - Vishwas Mudagal

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

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all. - Scott Lynch

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

The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best. - Paul Babickii

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it. - Margaret Mahy

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!! - Anamika Mishra

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

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

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

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

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. - Martin Luther

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness. - Heather Armstrong

If you own this story you get to write the ending. - Brené Brown

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

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

Religious people never believe I write books. Someone should tell them books aren't only produced in monasteries anymore. - Daniel Marques

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse. - Roman Payne

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Lots of people lose themselves in love, it's no shame, they write songs about it. The hitch is you can't stay lost, sooner or later you have to get back to yourself. If you can't then love becomes your master and you're just it's dog.

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

(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

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

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. - Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

Write when you least feel like it,Because that's when you write best. - Nema Al-Araby

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

We write the history of our time. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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 course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance. - Rabbi Abraham Heschel

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.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. - Evelyn Waugh

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

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

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

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

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

The more I write, the less I understand why. - Marty Rubin

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

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

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories. - Elmore Leonard

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. - Stephen King

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be. - Patricia Hampl

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

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. - Aldous Huxley

I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences. - Antonia Perdu

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more. - A.E. Croft

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

We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write. - Cristen Rodgers

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

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

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace. - Vincent Louis Carrella

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

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

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

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

To write good poems is the secret of brevity. - Dejan Stojanovic

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 was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath? - Shannon Lynette

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall. - Morrissey

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

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

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

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

he captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say. - Nikki Rowe

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. - Stephen King

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

Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner strength and divine power is activated for your to work towards the fulfillment of your dreams. - 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

Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie. - Garrett Robinson

If you have nothing to write your power of imagination is lost. - Kishore Bansal

I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants. - Fierce Dolan

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up - Lenny Bruce

Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this. - Alistair Cross

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

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

Give someone a book, they'll read for a day. Teach someone how to write a book, they'll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self doubt. - Lauren DeStefano

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 letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two. - Sue Grafton

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

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

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

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

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

I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself. - T.D. Mulhern

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. - Maynard James Keenan

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Anaïs Nin

You need two things to write a great book: imagination and inclination. Without one, your book will be boring; without the other, your book won't get finished at all. - Ellie Firestone

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

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal

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

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

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

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

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

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

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

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. - George Orwell

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

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have. - Rita Mae Brown

First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity. - Martin Myers

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

I write because I know magic happens - Anamika Mishra

If writing is your passion, write and don’t let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don’t need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it. - Bindu Adai

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

As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can’t write a coda because I can’t speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself. - G.R. Reader

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about. - Kit Reed

I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books. - Anamika Mishra

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience. - Oliver

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

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

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

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

It ain't a crapshoot unless you write crap. - Jonathan O'Brien

Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf - Marvela Dawnay

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

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

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don’t be shown up by a baboon - James Scott Bell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean. - Pushkar Saraf

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. - Benjamin Disraeli

Write something the skeptics will sneer at. - Marty Rubin

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

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

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction. - Don Roff

When asked for advice on how to write a short story, Carlos Cortés responded, No advice. Every writer has to exorcise his own demons. - Carlos Cortés

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

You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. - John Rogers

Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present. - M. Kirin

Write what you want to write; don't fear about who will read it. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

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

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

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

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write. - Charlotte Eriksson

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

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

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

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write. - Carroll Bryant

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. - Anna Quindlen

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

Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don't write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write. - Himanshu Chhabra

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

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

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. - A.D. Posey

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

I read and write. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks. - A.M. Homes

Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing! - Robert Ahaness

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

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future. - Habeeb Akande

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. - Ernest Hemingway

But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS. - Taylor Swift

Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one. - A.D. Posey

If you want to be a writer, then write. - I. Marlene King

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

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

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

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

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story. - Karen Blixen

Just write it,Because it is the next best thing of the world. - Newpostcard

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back. - Brian Spellman

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

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

Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either. - Don Roff

I don't write for a living. I live to write. - Marwa Ayad

Let's be honest, honest it's important. I don't care about you, don't say bullshit and if there isn't any important thing please don't write me. - Deyth Banger

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

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

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

When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again. - Kai Strand

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

Mozart liked to write letters while on the loo. He wrote, "I think it only fitting to write while shitting." This gave me the idea of, "I think it only fitting to read while ..." Who says men can't multitask? - Peter Rogers

Do not forget to write your sacred book. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. - Francis Bacon

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

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

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

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

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. - Sandra E. Lamb

Write until your idea becomes reality. - T.N. Suarez

I write to believe in goodness. - Red Haircrow

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

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

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

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

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind. - Ambrose Bierce

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. - Garth Nix

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

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. - Susan Sontag

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. - Joss Whedon

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

I write because I always want good to win over evil - Anamika Mishra

You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel. - Shannon L. Alder

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

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. - Mark Twain

No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write. - Lydia Rodriguez-Clement

I write to shed my tears. - Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the worldacknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom. - Patrick Califia-Rice

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

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

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

When Life teaches you a lesson, write it down and use it ASAP. Many destinies have failed because of lack of attention to important details. - Asuni LadyZeal

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

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 have to do murder?Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about. - Leslie Ford

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

When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law. - Carla H. Krueger

I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings. - Arti Honrao

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

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. - Maurice Sendak

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

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. - Ezra Pound

I write. See you there. - Barbara Johansen

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

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

We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it. - Peter Drucker

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them. - David Chuka

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. - Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

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

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

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

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

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston S. Churchill

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

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. - Bashō Matsuo

Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! - Jackie Collins

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned. - Jenim Dibie

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

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

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

I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do. - Thurman P. Banks Jr.

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

I write with all my heart - Ursula K. Le Guin

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

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not. - Mark Nepo

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

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

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. - J. K. Rowling

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

When that little clock on my wall says Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind. - Olaotan Fawehinmi

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

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

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

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem. - Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. - Philip Pullman

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. - Flannery O'Connor

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

Write about the beauties of life to create a beautiful society. - Debasish Mridha

To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams. - Rob Shepherd

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something...then yeah, they're old enough. LOL - Michelle M. Pillow

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort. - Joyce Carol Oates

Labels try to make you say what they want or write the songs they think you should write. [Johnny] Cash did his own thing.

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

I write because I love. I love because I write. - A.D. Posey

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to. - Carl Clinton Van Doren

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

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

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all. - Joss Whedon

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

And as I venture into anothers pit of everlasting darkness, I'll return with a simple blackened rose. and with that rose I shall write the stories it tells. - Larul Andrews

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

I write because I cannot NOT write. - Charlotte Brontë

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

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

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

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

I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel like I'm a human being. There are universal human experiences. When you don't put your picture online, they can see your soul before they have preconceived notions. - Evelyn Rodriguez

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

You are the writer of your life story; so don’t forget to write the best one. - Debasish Mridha

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

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

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

People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.] - Mo Willems

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

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

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

To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... that's how I write the horror. It's very complicated. - Deyth Banger

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

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. - Neil Gaiman

I used to only write poetry; now I live it. I finally matured enough to starve my hypocrisy to death. - Steve Maraboli

...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

If you want to write, write. It’s as simple as that. - K.D. Green

‎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

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.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them. - Elizabeth Hernandez

I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read. - K.D. Green

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

(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

If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. - Louis L’Amour

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons. - Carla H. Krueger

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. - A.D. Posey

I'm a writer. I write checks. Mostly fiction. - Wendy Liebman

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

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

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

A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out - Michael Ondaatje

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

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience. - Richelle E. Goodrich

To write is to release the soul. So write. What right have we to leave a thing of such beauty bottled within ourselves? - Brian A. McBride

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

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. - Ernest Hemingway