Write Quotes
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Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst.
Susan Cheever -
Don’t write to impress other people — impress yourself first!
Vinny May Jr.
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.
Stephenie Meyer -
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
Sarah Pinborough -
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 -
It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.
Elaine Equi -
I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
Simon Schama -
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
Eugen Weber
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My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.
Antoniette Costa -
To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
It was a good chance for me to write lyrics that I was going to sing, I’ve always written lyrics for other people to sing. I thought. I’m going to write an album here, but i’m not going to write stuff that other people are gonna sing, because that would be pointless.
Nick Hodgson -
If you wish to write, write.
Epictetus -
Where is it written that lives should have a meaning? So she began to disparage all that struggle of mine to write. She said mockingly: Is the meaning that line of black markings that look like insect shit?
Elena Ferrante -
Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
Susan Isaacs
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It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.
Angela Alioto -
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
Cass McCombs -
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.
Sarah Dessen -
You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
Sigrid Nunez -
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
Rumi -
When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
George Saintsbury
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
Evan Davis -
I wanted to write in you.
Beatrice Sparks -
Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.
Michael Jackson -
I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
Brett Dennen