Write Quotes

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

My favorite pastime is to write.

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.

I write every night.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.