Write Quotes

• 'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

  

  Brian Koppelman
  • Write
  • Works

• To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

  

  James Cook
  • Business
  • Write
  • Visit

• Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Write
  • Life is
  • Blackboard

• 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
  • Job
  • Passion
  • Schedule

• I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

  

  Paul Engle
  • Want
  • Write
  • Eat

• I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

  

  Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Inspiration
  • Sing
  • Source

• When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

  

  Ace Antonio Hall
  • Write
  • Plan
  • Shine

• Minnie, I want to abolish the peerage. I write radical pamphlets in secret. I am not going to shriek, 'Oh, no! A scandal!' and run away.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Secret
  • Radical
  • Abolish

• In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.

  

  Alda Merini
  • Moment
  • Write
  • Flowers

• I had done a couple TV pilots, and a friend of mine wanted to leave comics and come work in Hollywood, and I said, "Well, you've got to understand that when you sell a TV pilot, imagine if you turned in the best issue of Batman ever, and DC was like, 'Well we love this, but we can't publish it because we have to publish this other thing by this other person." The odds are really long on getting anything made, so if you come from comics and you're still making a living in comics, that really helps because you're not desperate for someone's permission to write for a living.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Friend
  • Hollywood
  • Batman

• Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

  

  Edmund Campion
  • Write
  • Paper
  • Provide

• I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

  

  Joseph Wambaugh
  • Book
  • Write
  • Disciplined

• I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.

  

  Abdellah Taia
  • Dream
  • Write
  • Filmmaker

• There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Fan
  • Letters
  • Labrador

• I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

  

  Allison Silverman
  • Write
  • Tough
  • Jokes

• All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Write
  • Grabs

• I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Day
  • Road
  • Write

• I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

  

  Will Eisner
  • Honest
  • Writer
  • Experienced

• I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

  

  George Sewell
  • Write
  • Clever
  • Autobiographies

• I start with the joke line and write backward.

  

  Nipsey Russell
  • Write
  • Joke
  • Backward

• It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.

  

  William Jay Smith
  • Children
  • Write
  • Verse

• I definitely use life experiences. For me, it's extremely hard to write about something I don't know anything about. If I've never been angry, then I can't write about being angry. We're human beings so we all have emotions. To just have that knowledge, it definitely helps me out as a singer songwriter.

  

  Brianna Taylor
  • Angry
  • Emotions
  • Life Experiences

• I write to discover what I know.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Write
  • Discover
  • I Know

• I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Believe
  • Songs

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