I Write Quotes

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

Improvise. Write your own damn story.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

You can never know enough about your characters

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

I like to write poetry.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.

I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.

When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Just surrender to the story.

One must learn the rules so one can break them properly.

A true piece of writing sets you free.

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It’s like distilling something.

Sometimes you’re the protagonist and someone else is the hero.

Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.

The story becomes clearer with time.