E. B. White Quotes

I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart.

I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

The best stories come out of the truth.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.

The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it's stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that's where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference.

Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.

As long as what you do reaches out to people, I don't think there's any reason to stop yourself from doing anything.

Write what you love and love what you write.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

In order to write about life first you must live it.