Weyes Blood (Natalie Laura Mering) Quotes

It came naturally to find out what I did best, which was to write songs and sing well.

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• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Think
  • Write
  • Luxury

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Things
  • Honest

• I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Road
  • Write

• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Write
  • Diary

• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Poverty
  • Write
  • Escape

• I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Audience
  • Broken
  • Write

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

  

  Hank Williams
  • You
  • Like
  • Sing

• I don't write books inadvertently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Write
  • Books
  • Inadvertently

• If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Better
  • Write

• I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Nice

• I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Write
  • Something
  • Events

• I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Girl
  • Perfect
  • Write

• I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Learn
  • Write
  • Newspaper

• I'd love to write for One Direction. I think they've done incredibly well.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Think
  • Write
  • Direction

• The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.

  

  Andy Kim
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Write

• Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Heart
  • Actors
  • Characters

• Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

  

  Sidney Hook
  • Death
  • Present
  • Tyranny

• It came naturally to find out what I did best, which was to write songs and sing well.

  

  Weyes Blood
  • Write
  • Sing
  • Naturally