Write Quotes

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.