I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. Votes: 4
Tom StoppardEveryone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write. Votes: 4
Elmore LeonardAs a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! Votes: 4
Jacqueline SusannWriting comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Votes: 3
Annie ProulxChance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter Votes: 3
Baltasar GracianEverything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write. Votes: 3
Charlie KaufmanA student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. Votes: 3
Robert M. HutchinsI really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. Votes: 3
Louis L'AmourWhen I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. Votes: 3
Amanda HockingI'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story. Votes: 3
Lucy HaleWe must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. Votes: 3
Michael RostovtzeffHere I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois, Votes: 3
Sayed KashuaAs a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! Votes: 3
Jacqueline SusannYou never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. Votes: 3
Gene WolfeI talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. Votes: 3
Alistair CookeI know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point. Votes: 3
Sarah SilvermanI think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. Votes: 3
Alice MattisonBy the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. Votes: 3
Howard RheingoldI try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies. Votes: 2
Dana SpiottaMy inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write. Votes: 2
Mary GardenIt's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. Votes: 0
Louise ErdrichI can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyPeople generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. Votes: 0
Neil deGrasse TysonHappy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there? Votes: 0
Natalie ImbrugliaI don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters. Votes: 0
Margot RobbieI can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it. Votes: 0
Molly ShannonWrite how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithWhat I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. Votes: 0
Hortense CalisherUpon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write. Votes: 0
Stephen KingHow could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write? Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it. Votes: 0
Jamie LidellI write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie. Votes: 0
Isaac WattsHow could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write~? Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaAsk how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. Votes: 0
John FletcherYour temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. Votes: 0
Seamus HeaneyI am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutI had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book. Votes: 0
Jenny LawsonI can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it. Votes: 0
MaryJanice DavidsonI simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are. Votes: 0
Robert CormierI also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing. Votes: 0
Jeff DanielsDon't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyHow are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly? Votes: 0
Robert FrostWriters can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. Votes: 0
Jim HarrisonOnce I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories. Votes: 0
Elizabeth McCrackenThey hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write. Votes: 0
Michael JacksonHow long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyHow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauPeople write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to. Votes: 0
Leona LewisI'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. Votes: 0
Nicholas SparksIf I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works. Votes: 0
Taylor SwiftI just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that? Votes: 0
Siobhan FaheyIf you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? Votes: 0
Brian KernighanA novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. Votes: 0
Johnny RichYou cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. Votes: 0
Max HastingsHow did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books. Votes: 0
James EllroyI write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be. Votes: 0
Roxane GayYou're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life? Votes: 0
Hill HarperI could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine. Votes: 0
Barry BondsWhen I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?" Votes: 0
Wayne DyerThe New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. Votes: 0
Anna QuindlenBon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day Votes: 0
C.S. WoolleyI write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right. Votes: 0
Cheryl StrayedWe write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller. Votes: 0
David GrossmanHow do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it Votes: 0
Maurice SendakIt is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. Votes: 0
Erica JongIf I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels. Votes: 0
Zac FarroBut how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell! Votes: 0
Robert MusilWhen I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. Votes: 0
Jason ReitmanI've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am. Votes: 0
Jim BeaverI have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff. Votes: 0
Charles KingPeople often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.' Votes: 0
Edward AlbeeI love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. Votes: 0
Mary MouserI write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it. Votes: 0
Billy Bob ThorntonIf i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry. Votes: 0
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