I write because I don't why I write.
Marty Rubin
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And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I ...
R.B. O'BRIEN I have never sought the reason why I write.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I write romance because I love to read romance.
RACHEL GIBSON Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with...
STEVE MARABOLI I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
JIM HARRISON I write in the studio.
MACY GRAY I write my music.
T-PAIN I write with as much objectivity as I can.
ERNEST GAINES I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK I try to write characters that are normal, believable people with a unique sense of humor. I like ch...
TAYLOR FENNER I write what I see; I paint what I am.
ETEL ADNAN I write to escape; to escape poverty.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS I write very slowly.
CARLA BLEY I write with teenagers in mind.
BERNARD BECKETT I write, but I also act.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.
JAMES TOBACK When I write, I can shake off all my cares.
ANNE FRANK I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
DANIEL ALARCON Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different,...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's w...
J. COLE I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX I write the best book that I can write each time.
KAREN ROBARDS Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I write because there is a madness within me to express my thoughts in words. I write because I feel...
AVIJEET DAS I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'...
AUGUST WILSON I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity ...
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly e...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
SHANNON L. ALDER I write novels and other things.
JACK L. CHALKER When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I write about true-life type things.
KAREN KINGSBURY I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESEL I write - and then I write some more.
FRANK DELANEY I write music with an exclamation point!
RICHARD WAGNER I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.
CAROLE KING I write nothing but contemporary romances.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I write screenplays in the middle of the night.
RAY BRADBURY I never listen to music when I write.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I write my programs primarily for myself.
BILL BUDGE At the root of everything I write is tragedy.
DARIO FO The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
EVAN DANDO I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way...
CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN I write many essays on whales. I love whales, especially orcas. And dolphins.
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
JOHN CLEESE I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why...
LAURA MARLING If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK I love to write.
KARA HAYWARD I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that'...
ERIC VAN LUSTBADER You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno...
A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE I write because you exist.
MICHAEL FAUDET If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
WANDA JACKSON I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
ILANA GLAZER I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
LAURA MVULA Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
MALLORY ORTBERG I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
SUZANNE COLLINS What I write is not for little girls.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER I want the last cheque I write to bounce.
CHUCK FEENEY When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.
EVANGELINE LILLY I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
JAY DRATLER I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.
MARIAN KEYES I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
SEBASTIAN BACH I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists.
JOHN DARNIELLE I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-s...
LIANE MORIARTY Everything that I write will be signed with my name.
ELINOR GLYN I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
ELVIS COSTELLO One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.
KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
THOMAS BERGER I write because I can't imagine not writing.
RICHARD PRICE I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
GAY TALESE I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
MOHSIN HAMID I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons....
ISABEL ALLENDE I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alo...
SEINABO SEY Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's wh...
BEN FOLDS Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
THOMAS BERGER I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experime...
CARL SANDBURG I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats ...
GARRISON KEILLOR I will write until I can write no more. Then, I will write less.
DETRICK HUGHES I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write po...
MARK TWAIN Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")
WILLIAM S. WILSON Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
GARY KEMP I don't write stories, I write characters.
BHAVYA KAUSHIK Why do you write meaningless philosophy?” you asked.
“Because it gives meaning to life,”...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
JACK VANCE I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story ...
CHRIS WARE Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
L. E. MODESITT, JR. My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.
KAREN ROBARDS I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write fo...
BILLY COLLINS I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-...
EDWARD M. LERNER When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
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What is good is what feels good, and what is bad is what feels bad.
MARTY RUBIN The angel in me loves the devil in me.
MARTY RUBIN Language is a park where people meet.
MARTY RUBIN Some people have such good taste they can't enjoy anything.
MARTY RUBIN Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.
MARTY RUBIN Mirrors: they show you what you lack, not what you have.
MARTY RUBIN A poet is someone who never forgets that they were born naked.
MARTY RUBIN A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
MARTY RUBIN Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked.
MARTY RUBIN Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness.
MARTY RUBIN People think in such grand terms-unconditional love, changing the world, doing the impossible. They ...
MARTY RUBIN Tell me where the party is-I want to miss it.
MARTY RUBIN A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.
MARTY RUBIN No belief runs more counter to experience than the belief in a benevolent god.
MARTY RUBIN I know how to make myself happy, but I don't know how to make you happy.
MARTY RUBIN Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
MARTY RUBIN Weeds are stubborn. Weeds are independent. Weeds aren't tolerated.
MARTY RUBIN Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?
MARTY RUBIN Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
MARTY RUBIN It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.
MARTY RUBIN Who gave fire permission to burn?
MARTY RUBIN A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.
MARTY RUBIN If the light's not in you, you're in the dark.
MARTY RUBIN Words of the hero: "I am my fate.
MARTY RUBIN Morning not only forgives, it forgets.
MARTY RUBIN It is no small thing to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin.
MARTY RUBIN Ages and epochs belong to Time. Only the fleeting moment is eternal.
MARTY RUBIN Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.
MARTY RUBIN Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.
MARTY RUBIN There should be a law against doing work one doesn't like or believe in.
MARTY RUBIN One should show one's scars, not hide them.
MARTY RUBIN One should approach life as one approaches a lover-naked.
MARTY RUBIN The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
MARTY RUBIN It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like.
MARTY RUBIN Growing old and cheerful means learning to live with all the contradictions.
MARTY RUBIN The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.
MARTY RUBIN The wise oyster stays in its shell.
MARTY RUBIN All explanations tend to be self-serving.
MARTY RUBIN What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?
MARTY RUBIN Never unite in a cause, only in love.
MARTY RUBIN Diseases are not cured by giving them a name.
MARTY RUBIN It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.
MARTY RUBIN You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can't make him swallow it.
MARTY RUBIN Don't try to remake the world in your image. That was God's mistake.
MARTY RUBIN The wind was never angry, the rain was never sad.
MARTY RUBIN The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.
MARTY RUBIN The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching.
MARTY RUBIN Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look.
MARTY RUBIN The least righteous people, and therefore the least dangerous, are the skeptics.
MARTY RUBIN Lice don't seem so small when they get in your hair.
MARTY RUBIN What I dread most: having opinions.
MARTY RUBIN Thirst is a language even the grass understands.
MARTY RUBIN Never say yes to anything you can't say no to.
MARTY RUBIN How wonderful life is! How sad to squander it in bitterness, self-loathing and hate!
MARTY RUBIN Get up and do something; don't think about yourself.
MARTY RUBIN One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime.
MARTY RUBIN I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.
MARTY RUBIN You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.
MARTY RUBIN In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
MARTY RUBIN Morning will come, it has no choice.
MARTY RUBIN The last goose in the column is flying just as high.
MARTY RUBIN I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
MARTY RUBIN The present moment is always the most important. The present moment is the only one.
MARTY RUBIN The present moment is always the most important.
MARTY RUBIN Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
MARTY RUBIN You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN My advice to you is to dance while you still can.
MARTY RUBIN Dance is the art closest to nature.
MARTY RUBIN One should dance while one still can.
MARTY RUBIN Al other creatures use their intelligence to survive. We use ours to destroy ourselves.
MARTY RUBIN Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves.
MARTY RUBIN Don't let money or the lack of it rule your life.
MARTY RUBIN Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes work...
MARTY RUBIN All talk is small talk.
MARTY RUBIN When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.
MARTY RUBIN The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.
MARTY RUBIN There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
MARTY RUBIN Where the signposts end, the trail begins.
MARTY RUBIN The solution I always found was to go on living.
MARTY RUBIN A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art.
MARTY RUBIN All extreme opinions consume themselves.
MARTY RUBIN Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.
MARTY RUBIN I wasn't in Buffalo when it snowed but it snowed anyway.
MARTY RUBIN Events are singular, interpretations plural.
MARTY RUBIN The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.
MARTY RUBIN What we write should surprise us, the way life surprises us.
MARTY RUBIN Be unprepared, that's my motto. Let life surprise you.
MARTY RUBIN Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.
MARTY RUBIN Anything but loving is petty.
MARTY RUBIN More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.
MARTY RUBIN Disappointments pile up. Then you have to throw them out with the rest of the trash.
MARTY RUBIN Turns out we're stronger in reality than in our imagination. We survive hardships and losses we neve...
MARTY RUBIN We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.
MARTY RUBIN In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.
MARTY RUBIN The heart is a silent witness.
MARTY RUBIN Knowledge is just a foundation. The whole point of a foundation is to build on it.
MARTY RUBIN The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.
MARTY RUBIN There are no ugly things, only ugly thoughts.
MARTY RUBIN To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.
MARTY RUBIN Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold
MARTY RUBIN The answer to every 'why' is to ignore it.
MARTY RUBIN I can never conceive of yesterday as being anything but behind me.
MARTY RUBIN Giving alms to the rich is a luxury no beggar can afford.
MARTY RUBIN We're the slaves of our bodies. We don't have to be the slaves of our minds.
MARTY RUBIN If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.
MARTY RUBIN A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world.
MARTY RUBIN With the right kind of touch, sour apples turn sweet again.
MARTY RUBIN Even the faded flower denies nothingness.
MARTY RUBIN The way to my heart is through your heart.
MARTY RUBIN Talking with someone I like is my idea of fun.
MARTY RUBIN A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.
MARTY RUBIN Another person: a door you can't enter, even by knocking.
MARTY RUBIN Belief, not lack of it, is the source of intolerance. The greater the belief, the greater the intole...
MARTY RUBIN The aphorism-that uneasy compromise between poetry and philosophy.
MARTY RUBIN The aphorist writes in the gap between poetry and philosophy.
MARTY RUBIN When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.
MARTY RUBIN Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill.
MARTY RUBIN I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.
MARTY RUBIN If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.
MARTY RUBIN The predictions of false prophets always come true.
MARTY RUBIN Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.
MARTY RUBIN Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosopher...
MARTY RUBIN Ignorance is relatively easy to cure; stupidity is much harder.
MARTY RUBIN Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome; stupidity is much harder.
MARTY RUBIN Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent.
MARTY RUBIN It's stupid not to act stupid sometimes.
MARTY RUBIN People are intelligent; it is their ideas that are stupid.
MARTY RUBIN Cities get built out of poet's dreams.
MARTY RUBIN One is born an individual; one becomes a statistic.
MARTY RUBIN Mist around a mountain: all reality is there.
MARTY RUBIN First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it.
MARTY RUBIN If you can feel it why do you need the words?
MARTY RUBIN Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.
MARTY RUBIN When you enjoy a thought or activity, it's irrelevant whether it's meaningful or not.
MARTY RUBIN Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.
MARTY RUBIN The tree that stands so firm on land trembles in the water.
MARTY RUBIN The water is always deeper than what it reflects.
MARTY RUBIN The only way to live well is to feel intensely.
MARTY RUBIN Optimists think badly, but live well.
MARTY RUBIN Leisure is not always relaxation and it is relaxation that counts.
MARTY RUBIN What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art.
MARTY RUBIN It is better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.
MARTY RUBIN It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.
MARTY RUBIN Better Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Franz Kafkas.
MARTY RUBIN Batter Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Franz Kafkas.
MARTY RUBIN Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive.
MARTY RUBIN A long leash is not freedom.
MARTY RUBIN When the train stays on the tracks you don't ask why.
MARTY RUBIN No explanation is ever as good as not having one.
MARTY RUBIN The earth keeps turning but it never says why.
MARTY RUBIN The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.
MARTY RUBIN I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.
MARTY RUBIN What people are looking for is someone to explain life to them. But there is no explanation and noth...
MARTY RUBIN Philosophers console themselves with explanations.
MARTY RUBIN The deep roots never doubt spring will come.
MARTY RUBIN We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile
MARTY RUBIN If you're in the fault-finding business you'll find me full of faults.
MARTY RUBIN Money isn't everything but you'll never convince money.
MARTY RUBIN The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.
MARTY RUBIN Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.
MARTY RUBIN We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet.
MARTY RUBIN Propriety is a poor substitute for desire.
MARTY RUBIN Leisure isn't always relaxation and it's relaxation that counts.
MARTY RUBIN Freedom is the kite's response to the wind.
MARTY RUBIN Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
MARTY RUBIN Love hates to be cross-examined. Question love, and it runs away.
MARTY RUBIN You can't dissect a dream without killing it.
MARTY RUBIN The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.
MARTY RUBIN Dissatisfaction: the feeling that something is missing when nothing is missing.
MARTY RUBIN There ought to be a law against people doing work they don't like or believe in.
MARTY RUBIN Life goes nowhere. We are the ones who have tried to get somewhere and made a mess of life.
MARTY RUBIN To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working.
MARTY RUBIN An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.
MARTY RUBIN Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.
MARTY RUBIN Meddling is the evil, not indifference.
MARTY RUBIN You can always count on God to do nothing.
MARTY RUBIN Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.
MARTY RUBIN It's indifference that breaks hearts, not love.
MARTY RUBIN Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.
MARTY RUBIN The healthiest kind of love leaves room for indifference.
MARTY RUBIN You need spirit, fire, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
MARTY RUBIN You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.
MARTY RUBIN I feel a vast indifference toward everything that is not love.
MARTY RUBIN No one tells the truth about indifference. Indifference is the next best thing to love.
MARTY RUBIN Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.
MARTY RUBIN Fortune favors the nonchalant.
MARTY RUBIN Ease is the sign of grace in everything.
MARTY RUBIN The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.
MARTY RUBIN There is more chance than choice in our decisions.
MARTY RUBIN Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.
MARTY RUBIN The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.
MARTY RUBIN It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt.
MARTY RUBIN The waterfall winks at every passerby.
MARTY RUBIN The defects of our youth sustain us in old age.
MARTY RUBIN Grace rides inside the waves.
MARTY RUBIN The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
MARTY RUBIN You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.
MARTY RUBIN Intellectualism is trivial compared to affairs of the heart.
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