All Quotes

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
‐‐ Meg Cabot

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
‐‐ Lawrence Clark Powell

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
‐‐ Robert W. Service

Write what you care about.
‐‐ Sara Paretsky

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
‐‐ Dorothy Fields

Write what you know.
‐‐ Colson Whitehead

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

Write what you like; there is no other rule.
‐‐ O. Henry

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.
‐‐ Mark Z. Danielewski

Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.
‐‐ Betsy Beers

Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

Write whatever you like!
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
‐‐ Francesca Lia Block

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.
‐‐ Carol Berg

Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

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

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
‐‐ Natasha Bedingfield

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.
‐‐ Romola Garai

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
‐‐ Edie Falco

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
‐‐ R. A. Salvatore

Writers always know whether you like them or not.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.
‐‐ Robert Harris

Writers and musicians are very similar in that the chances of making a life in either field are so infinitesimal. And once you're in, the chances of staying viable are difficult. But there is something incredibly different about performing in front of a live audience, as opposed to sitting at your desk typing.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.
‐‐ Lynne Truss

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
‐‐ Charlotte Lamb

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
‐‐ Eudora Welty

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

Writers are a product of where we come from, but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.
‐‐ Sara Sheridan

Writers are a superstitious cowardly lot, and we loathe learning new computer applications to do something that, let's be honest, we could accomplish equally well with pen and paper - especially when that application is as unconventional as Scrivener.
‐‐ Antony Johnston

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
‐‐ Iris Johansen

Writers are always selling somebody out.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
‐‐ Liz Tuccillo

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.
‐‐ Alan Zweibel

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
‐‐ J. A. Konrath