I Quotes
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“I write for justice.”
“I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.”
“I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.”
“I write for myself things that I've gone through.”
“I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.”
“I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.”
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
“I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.”
“I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.”
“I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else.”
“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.”
Source: White Fang (Arcadia Classics)
“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.”
Source: White Fang (Arcadia Classics)
“I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.”
“I write for pages,
get lost in the mezzanine
hidden from stages.”
“I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.”
“I write for people who aren't Christians. I write for non, new, and nominal Christians who are curious about the Bible and Christianity. They're like New York City. If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere. If I can write a book about the Bible that's engaging enough to attract people who aren't even Christians, I'm betting Christians will want to read it, too.”
“I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.”
“I write for strength, to smile, to breathe life into dreams. Connect with love, understand the villain and most of all let go of the pain dwelling inside of me.-Tamyara Brown”
“I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.”
“I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when I’m working on a story, I’ll find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where they’ve taken the story. It’s as if they have a life all their own. What I do is create them and then let them go on to entertain me. . . .”
“I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.”
“I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.”
“I write for the readers who like their stories dark, sharp, and impossible to forget.”
Source: The Angel of Death
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters
“I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.”
“I write for the soul that turned its silence into a roar, and its sorrow into a soft fire of remembering.”
“I write for the still, small possibility of justice.”
“I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
“I write for the women who were told to stay quiet — so that one day, their daughters will not know silence at all.”
“I write for those who love the sound of words stretching across cultures.”
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head”
“I write for you, for me, for the 70% of us who make up the fabric of society: ordinary people with extraordinary lives, who play the roles of parents, siblings, children, neighbours and friends. We are those who work and study with tenacity, those who with effort and dedication bring sustenance to our homes, my novels and stories of horror, suspense and mystery are designed for the emerging generations, for those readers who seek freshness in literature and who feel distanced from traditional literature, with its labyrinth of ostentatious and complex words that often alienate the average citizen..., I write for the marginalised, for those who have felt that literature does not offer them a mirror in which to reflect themselves, for those who seek in the pages a refuge or an acknowledgement of their existence, I write for the free and critical spirits, for the innate rebels who question the structures and narratives of our civilisation, I write for the dreamers who imagine a world beyond the reach of politics and corporations, for those who resist being moulded by the great entertainment machines that seek to numb our minds and wills; It is my voice, through writing, that seeks to resonate with yours, inviting you on a literary journey where together we explore the confines of our reality and the abysses of our imagination".”
Source: Talent for Horror: Homage to Edgard Allan Poe
“I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.”
“I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.”
“I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.”
“I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.”
“I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.”
Source: Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
“I write from experience, and then I add fiction.”
“I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.”
“I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.”
“I write from my point of view.”
“I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.”
“I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.”
“I write from my stomach.”
“I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.”
“I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.”
“I write from the Land of Violets, and from the Land of Spring...”
Source: Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
“I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.”
“I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.”
“I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.”