Write Quotes

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.