Write Quotes
- Page 16Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
Ann Patchett
Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.
David Guterson
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.
Terry Pratchett
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
Tom Stoppard
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
Moby
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
Antonia Fraser
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest Hemingway
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
John Barton
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Sting
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
Joanna Southcott
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.
Sandra Brown
It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.
Joan Armatrading
I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.
Haruki Murakami
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
Chuck Mangione
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
Countee Cullen
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
Jack White
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
Christa McAuliffe
CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.
Richard Stallman