Write Quotes

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

Write what you care about.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I need to write to be happy.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

I write in American slang.