If you don't like someone's story, write your own. - Chinua Achebe Remember, lad," said the newt, "If it's going to be tommorow, it might as well be today. And if it is today, it could have been yesterday. If it was yesterday, then you're over and done with it, and can write your own book. Think about that. - Avi If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like. - Rita Mae Brown It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. - William Golding Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. - Jim Henson One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you'r...

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. - Brian Celio I responded (and with rather touching wholeheartedness) to the sweep of Tolkien's imagination-to the ambition of his story-but I wanted to write my own kind of story, and had I started then, I would have written his... Thanks to Mr. Tolkien, the twentieth century had all the elves and wizards it needed. - Stephen King I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist. - Richard Fleeshman I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording. - Willa...

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs. - Gregg Allman There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. - Alan Perlis There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I've used every one, but there is only one plot things are not as they seem. - Jim Thompson

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true.... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be... the severest critics of our own societies. - Edward Abbey When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier. It helps, naturally, to have something to say. - Edward Abbey But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books. - Edward Abbey But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended. - Edward Abbey I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. - Mark Twain I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience. - Mark Twa...

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes. - Edward Abbey I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. - Lynn Abbey I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it. - Kathy Acker I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths - and a degree in English. I worried a lot about girls and what had happened to my bike. Later I became I writer and worked on a lot of things that were almost incredibly successful but in fact just failed to see the light of day. Other writers will know what I mean. - Douglas Adams You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what y...

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. - Ernest Hemingway It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. - Julia Quinn For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write - Friedrich Nietzsche What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. - David Baker I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a gir...

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. - Julia Quinn I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie? - Charles M Schulz I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me. - Ray Bradbury Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. - Hal David Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. - Anita Desai No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written. - Alice Hoffman I've always said it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes. - Bart Howard How to Write a Poem Catch the air around the butterf...