Write Quotes

• I just want to sit in my room and write books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Write
  • Room

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Human Beings
  • Impulse

• I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

  

  Laurie Notaro
  • Job
  • Funeral
  • Deadline

• I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Write
  • Script
  • Happier

• I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

  

  Peter Frampton
  • Way
  • Write
  • Happens

• I love to stay at home and write.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Love
  • Home
  • Write

• To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

  

  Aristotle
  • Think
  • Wise Man
  • Common People

• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Write

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Write
  • Walk

• 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

• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Song
  • Difficult

• I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Fans
  • Records
  • Letters

• I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Write
  • Piano
  • Software

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
  • Live
  • Events

• Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Passions
  • Wise Man
  • VIolin

• The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, “Oh my God, this song is totally about me.”

  

  Adele
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Write
  • Books
  • Publish

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Grandmother
  • Read

• I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Good
  • Die
  • Read

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Read
  • Romance

• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Create
  • Joke
  • Absurd

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