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Write a book online or help to write a book to give the Right Shape of the Imagination. Contact ghost writer Jerry Payne. — Jerry Payner

When I sit down I write very fast ... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well. — Michael Morpurgo

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up. — Johnny Winter

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. — Scott Adams

I needed experience. How Could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? — Sylvia Plath

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. — Ernest Gaines

If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done. — Summer Sanders

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. — Paulo Coelho

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. — Jacqueline Leo

But poverty, with most who whimper forth
Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe;
The effect of laziness, or sottish write. — William Cowper

Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another. — Matt Berninger

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. — Charles Caleb Colton

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing. — Laura Bell Bundy

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write. — Aleksandar Hemon

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.' — B.o.B

Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives. — Isadora Duncan

I'm definitely not pushing to find who can I write with or produce with, but of course I'm open to something if it comes up. — Betty Who

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M. — Elmore Leonard

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing. — Paul Strisik

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it. — Eudora Welty

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs. — Albert Hammond Jr.

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state. — Travis Morrison

A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all. — Robbie Robertson

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. — Jonathan Safran Foer

If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever... — Nick Armbrister

Whether you think you're right or you think you're wrong. You're right."
"If you think in pictures, write. If you think in words, paint. — Krista Kedrick

Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before. — Rodney Richards

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me. — Gloria Naylor

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling. — John Ridley

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. — Edward Dahlberg

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it — Natalie Goldberg

I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing. — Mariah Carey

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. — Utada Hikaru

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point. — Paul Achleitner

It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again. — George R R Martin

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point. — Lauren DeStefano

I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening. — Maria Bamford

This week or last week, I don't really care about it anymore. I write myself this later, I tell myself you let me go. — Sara Quin

I write best when I am either, falling in love, or falling apart. — Rudy Francisco

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions. — F. Sionil Jose

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves. — Jane Yolen

It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt. — Antjie Krog

Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living. — Marjorie Bowen

I like men who paint or write or do something creative. — Olga Kurylenko

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. — Alvin Ailey

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I'm not sure if I write because I am crazy, or I'm crazy because I write. — Wendy Stanphill

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them. — Thighpaulsandra

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day. — Susan Isaacs

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak. — John Selden

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination. — Michael Pryor

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. — Don Roff

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative. — Dani Shapiro

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate. — F Scott Fitzgerald

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week. — R.L. Stine

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher

A point of view, a single way of thinking that encompasses all elements of a subject, allows essays more or less to write themselves. — Stephen Fry

I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod. — Jason Calacanis

Why do I write?
To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear — Rainbow Rowell

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. — Alice Walker

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. — Justin Townes Earle

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. — Lauren Graham

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. — Kurt Vonnegut

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy. — Larry Brooks

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it. — Andrea L'Artiste

It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its adversaries. — Perry Anderson

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace. — Vincent Louis Carrella

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton. — Jamie Lynn Spears

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to. — Lemon Andersen

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe. — Paul McCartney

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. — Carlisle Floyd

Don't write stories for teenagers or any other group," she advised. "Write them for yourself and let the audience that needs them find them. — Wally Lamb

You don't write what you know, or you would write one thing. I never understood that. You write what you want to find out. — Nora Roberts

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid ... initially and my own stories. — Peter Morgan

Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes. — Robert Leckie

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent. — James Lipton

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.' — Damian Lewis

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner. — Sam Horn

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion. — Elizabeth Reyes

I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. — C.S. Lewis

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it. — Annie Dillard

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life. — Julia Cameron

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. — Scott Bradfield

Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it. — Nancy Farmer

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Write about "leaving." Approach it any way you want. Write about your divorce, leaving the house this morning, or a friend dying. — Natalie Goldberg

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write. — Ruth Rendell

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line. — Baby Halder

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work. — Sinclair Lewis