Write Quotes
- Page 36Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.
James Welch
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
Richard Powers
I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.
Terry Pratchett
Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.
Joan Jett
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
Barbara Kingsolver
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
Don Henley
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
Pete Townshend
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
Alice Hoffman
Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.
Richard King
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
Ice T
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
Norman MacCaig
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
Sandy Koufax
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
Carlos Fuentes
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.
Tim Cahill
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Jonathan Lethem
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
Paul Simon