Write Quotes
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Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
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I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
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You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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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.
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I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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We join God’s story and allow him to write our stories by engaging in his mission to the world as his image bearers and commissioned representatives.
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Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
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At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
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I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
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We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it.
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In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.
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I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
