Write Quotes

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.

Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.

If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.

When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.