Write Quotes
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
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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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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?
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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.
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I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.
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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.
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I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
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I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
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I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
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I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
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If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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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.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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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.
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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.
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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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I can write about pain without experiencing pain, which I am thankful for.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
