All Quotes

Wrinkles happen to human beings.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.
‐‐ Richard Bausch

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.
‐‐ Jeffrey Brown

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.
‐‐ Jerry Pournelle

Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
‐‐ Carol Berg

Write a page a day. It will add up.
‐‐ Herman Wouk

Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
‐‐ Karen Bender

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.
‐‐ Clifton Daniel

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

Write about what you want to know.
‐‐ Brian Floca

Write about winter in the summer.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

Write as if you were dying.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
‐‐ Annie Dillard

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.
‐‐ Paul Harding

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
‐‐ Ann Patchett

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.
‐‐ Grant Morrison

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.
‐‐ Daya

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.
‐‐ Ivy Lee

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
‐‐ Arthur Phillips

Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and they can't. They fall behind and stop doing it. But if you just write even one hundred words a day, it's not that much. By the end of a month, you'll have three thousand words, which is one chapter.
‐‐ Cassandra Clare

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
‐‐ Michael Connelly

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.
‐‐ Kimberly Willis Holt

Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
‐‐ J. R. Moehringer

Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.
‐‐ Jane Yolen

Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
‐‐ E. L. James

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.
‐‐ Terry McMillan

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

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

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
‐‐ Ho Chi Minh

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.
‐‐ Robert Pinsky

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.
‐‐ Nigel Barker

Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
‐‐ H. L. Hunt

Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
‐‐ Karen Bender

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
‐‐ David Mitchell

Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something.
‐‐ Diana Nyad

Write the best book you can, the one that demands to be written, no matter what genre it is. Even a trend the trades tell you has gone stale can be revitalized by a superb piece of writing. It'll never be revitalized by someone jumping on a trend bandwagon.
‐‐ Jonathan Maberry

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.
‐‐ Douglas Wood