Write Quotes
-
Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
Taylor Momsen
-
You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
Joshua Cohen
-
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
Tea Obreht
-
It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
Kate McKinnon
-
There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
Walter Becker China Crisis
-
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
Barbara Mertz
-
If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
Patrick Ness
-
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
P. J. O'Rourke
-
I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
Mal Peet
-
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
Patricia Briggs
-
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
Franz Kafka
-
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
Harlan Coben
-
I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
A. S. Byatt
-
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
-
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
-
Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
Patricia Reilly Giff
-
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.
Charles XII of Sweden
-
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
Kate Adie
-
I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.
Patrick Modiano
-
My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.
Karen Robards
-
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
Wayne Dyer
-
When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind.
George Michael
-
Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'
Parker Posey
-
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos