Write Quotes

• The world is full of paper, write to me.

  

  Agha Shahid Ali
  • World
  • Write
  • Full

• I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Running
  • Write
  • Parallel

• What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Picture
  • Heroes
  • Dust

• Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.

  

  Paul Harding
  • Write
  • Books
  • Readers

• I went on to write my graduate thesis on the "Montgomery Story" comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."

  

  Andrew Aydin
  • History
  • Write
  • Comic Book

• To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • People
  • Write
  • Prescriptions

• I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Emails

• They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Write
  • Prefaces
  • Charlatan

• I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Relationships

• In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

  

  George Shearing
  • Sign
  • Note
  • Braille

• I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Know
  • Write
  • I Think

• I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Book
  • Write
  • I Believe

• I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what to write about. A journal is a great source of story starters.

  

  Ann M. Martin
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Complaint

• I want to gather up all the words in the world and write them down on little pieces of paper—then throw them in the air. They would look like tiny sparrows flying toward the sun. Without all those words, the sky would be clear and perfect and blue. The deafening world would be beautiful in all that silence.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Air
  • Silence
  • Sparrows

• I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Life
  • Romance
  • Motive

• I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Musician

• Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Liar
  • Autobiography
  • Novelist

• In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of have to just - sometimes you just say yes to people, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure," and then you just write the one you want to write.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • People
  • Write
  • Music Industry

• Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Vanity
  • Secure
  • Admired

• Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.

  

  Andrea Brown
  • Children
  • Write
  • Easy

• I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.

  

  Barbara Christian
  • Literature
  • Write
  • Hallucinating

• The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Book
  • Facets
  • Totality

• All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Real
  • Characters
  • Readers

• It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Book
  • Dream
  • Write

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