Write Quotes

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.

~ Annie Dillard

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

~ Jonathan Galassi

Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all may relate, but wait, and those who were meant to see it eventually will find it, for truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.

~ Suzy Kassem

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

~ Jenim Dibie

You are a writer. You just need to write.

~ Jeff Goins

A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.

~ Janice Valencia Capulso

A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.

~ Karris Callahan

You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.

~ Katelyn S. Bolds

Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write...

~ Sanhita Baruah

I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.

~ Christy Hall

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

~ Steven Pressfield

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

~ Patti Digh

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.

~ Andre Dubus

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

~ David Morrell

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

~ Ben Hecht

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

~ Ernest Hemingway

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.

~ Annie Dillard

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

~ Sidney Sheldon

You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!

~ Deyth Banger

Isn't it fun to work— or don't you ever do it? It's especially fun when your kind of work is the thing you'd rather do more than anything else in the world. I've been writing as fast as my pen would go every day this summer, and my only quarrel with life is that the days aren't long enough to write all the beautiful and valuable and entertaining thoughts I'm thinking. I've finished the second draft of my book and am going to begin the third tomorrow morning at half-past seven. It's the sweetest book you ever saw— it is, truly. I think of nothing else. I can barely wait in the morning to dress and eat before beginning; then I write and write and write till suddenly I'm so tired that I'm limp all over.

~ Jean Webster

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

~ Jean Webster

True authors don't write for fame or to make a name or money, they write to make impact

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.

~ Calvin W. Allison

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

~ Ryan Lilly

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

~ Cornelia Funke

I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

~ Slicktor Victor Robinson

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analysing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.

~ D.h. Lawrence

How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious gifts in our lives. Once today is over, that's it. Think about how you really want to spend your day. Tomorrow, today will be history. It's your life, your history. How do you want to write the history of your life today…?

~ James A. Murphy

You write a thought down because you want to see what next as a thought is going to come out.

~ Deyth Banger

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Write what you love. Fill your pages with the beating of your own heart, the breath from your own lungs. Live through your characters. Let your characters live through you. Then you will love what you write, and others will, too.

~ Amanda Emerson

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

~ Pamela Glass Kelly

Solitude is very different from a ’time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get up and walk around, eat ice cream, let ideas percolate, forget the story for a time, and then return to the page. Even the muse needs a vacation to rest up before she gives more of herself.

~ Jan Marquart

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

~ Steven Pressfield

When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world.

~ Debasish Mridha