Write Quotes
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The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
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Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
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To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?
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My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
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'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
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You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
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I tend to write in the mornings.
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But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
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I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think
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It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.
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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.
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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.
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I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.
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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
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Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.
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I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
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I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
