Write Quotes

• It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

  

  Angela Alioto
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Personal

• People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

  

  Petra Haden
  • Write
  • Born
  • Songs

• All of it made me think about this book I want to write. It's about greed.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Book
  • Think
  • Write

• Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Artists
  • Give
  • Looking For

• Almost through force of habit, she found her lips saying the words she had so often said before: “Let’s not spoil it . . . You will write to me, my dear, my dear . . .” His face was impassive. “I never write,” he said.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Write
  • Habit
  • Force

• You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Write
  • Scene
  • Works

• I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Write
  • Start
  • Process

• To attempt to write about Dun Aengus and bring some sort of freshness to it is rather like trying to perform a similar service for Stonehenge: so many people have attempted it before that one is tempted to give up what one is looking at is not only one of the wonders of Ireland, but of the entire Western world.

  

  Eric Newby
  • Service
  • Perform
  • Wonders

• I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a suspenseful crime novel.

  

  Nick Petrie
  • People
  • Write
  • Realistic

• 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
  • Characters
  • Exception
  • Good Girl

• Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5. I tried to make the most out of every situation that came along.

  

  Paul Downs Colaizzo
  • Write
  • Situation
  • Unemployment

• 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
  • Experience
  • Style
  • Atmosphere

• I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

  

  Ntozake Shange
  • Live
  • Think
  • Change

• It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.

  

  Anne Bernays
  • Write
  • Hours
  • Days

• It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

  

  Nathaniel Borenstein
  • Write
  • Software
  • Engineer

• Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.

  

  Stephen Graham Jones
  • Write
  • Horror
  • Prefer

• If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • People
  • Chinese
  • Conversation

• I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Artist
  • Write
  • Don't Think

• Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.

  

  Kathryn Hughes
  • Women
  • Something
  • Happen

• That the object of writing is to write to yourself, to let your self know what you have been trying to avoid.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Write
  • Self
  • Avoid

• I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.

  

  Mike Scully
  • Country
  • Write
  • Jokes

• What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Examination

• The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Character
  • Demon
  • Inner

• My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.

  

  Antoniette Costa
  • Want
  • Write
  • Performing

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