Write Quotes
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The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
Ernest Gaines
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If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.
William Campbell Gault
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I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.
Sarah Dessen
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I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this ideal schedule. Then I try to find time later in the day. I usually work at home, but sometimes, for a change I'll go to a library or a cafe. And I like to read poetry before I sit down to write.
Sigrid Nunez
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
Guan Moye
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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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I decided to write Collateral Beauty on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.
Allan Loeb
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Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.
Nick Swardson
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
Erica Jong
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I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.
Anna Kamienska
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
Cass McCombs
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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.
Frederic Chopin
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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.
Ivy Lee
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We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I never used an outline until I started "The Bourne Legacy" project for which I was required to write an outline. To be honest, I thought I'd hate the idea, assuming that if I'd thought of all the ideas at the outset I'd have to incentive to actually write the book, because for me part of the joy of writing are the surprises you come upon as the book takes shape. But something curious and exciting happened. As I wrote the outline, some sections would be very detailed, others quite sketchy, so that whole portions of the book would be covered by one line, such as "Bourne is chased by Khan through Budapest," which when I wrote the novel turned out to be 40-50 pages! Now I'll never write a novel without first doing an outline. Looking back on it, I used to get bogged down in extraneous characters and situations, especially during the first 100 pages (which I find the most difficult to write) that I would later have to scrap, wasting time and energy, and frustrating me. Now that never happens.
Eric Van Lustbader
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Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.
Chris Campanioni
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Albert Camus
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I find it very difficult not to write in any sort of Sudanese style. With Sudanese music, there are very specific things that happen with the syncopation of the drums, melodies and stuff. And whenever I write, that's always the first thing that comes out, because I grew up listening to it. It's a part of me, so I try to bring that out in the music. I think that you have to be honest with what you do, and that's the most honest thing that I can do, is to write that way.
Ahmed Gallab
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We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
Erica Jong
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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
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Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
Paul Kagame
