Write Quotes

• I just write whenever I can.

  

  Elmer Kelton
  • Write

• When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • Together
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Write
  • Prove
  • Stronger

• 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

• 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

• I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

  

  Susan Straight
  • Myself
  • Write
  • Books

• When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Write
  • Image

• 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

• 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 willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Trust
  • Wander
  • Runs

• It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Want
  • Amazing
  • Write

• I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Write
  • Novel
  • Letter

• I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Write
  • Order
  • Find Out

• I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.

  

  Stephen Sommers
  • Movie
  • Fear
  • Characters

• I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Music
  • Write
  • Novels

• I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Light
  • Write
  • Darkness

• 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

• What I really meant to write to you about today was to tell you that I read your learned and technical and I am sure admirable denouncements of Walt Whitman with a respectful attention due to so much earnestness; and when I had done, and wondered awhile pleasantly at the amount of time for letter-writing the Foreign Office allows its young men, I stretched myself, and got my hat, and went down to the river; and I sat at the water's edge in the middle of a great many buttercups; and there was a little wind; and the little wind knocked the heads of the buttercups together; and it seemed to amuse them, or else something else did, for I do assure you I thought I heard them laugh.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Attention
  • Wind
  • Laugh

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

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Artist
  • Write
  • Don't Think

• My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Write
  • Books
  • Priority

• Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Write
  • Books
  • Production

• It's much more important to write than to be written about.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • Write

• I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Woman
  • Artist
  • Write

• 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

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