I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.
– Joss Whedon
Tag: write
Quotable 370
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
– Anne Enright
Quotable 367
I’ll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please, and as I damn please.
– William Carlos Williams
Quotable 362
With every novel I write, a line of discarded pages will stretch for miles behind me.
– Margo Orlando Littell
Quotable 345
It is hard enough to write books and stories without having to explain them as well.
– Ernest Hemingway
Quotable 343
If I didn’t have an ego, I wouldn’t write 90% of the things I write. The voices in my head whispering “that story is sh*t” would win.
– Nnedi Okorafor
Quotable 336
One reason I write is to examine other ways the world could be.
– Kate Elliott
Quotable 316
Writers; yes you should write what you know. But you can change what you know at any point. Talk to different people. Read different books.
– Jay Stringer
Quotable 311
I write as a reader, not knowing what the author will say next.
– Russell Edson
Quotable 252
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
– Toni Morrison