Write Quotes

• National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Identity
  • Inside
  • Motion

• I won't say extremely prolific, but I try to write stuff that will last a long time.

  

  Dave Mason
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Prolific

• You write about what you know.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Know
  • Write

• I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Guy
  • Write
  • Ask

• Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Write

• Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Violence

• If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Funny
  • Write
  • Nothing

• I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fraudulence

• When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Small
  • Goal

• I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Person
  • Write
  • Pencil

• I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Think
  • Write
  • Shopping

• I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Want
  • Like
  • Write

• That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

  

  Rob Halford Judas Priest
  • You
  • Play
  • Record

• It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Write
  • Silly

• When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Science

• When you write for someone else, you're being an actor, the feeling is the feeling of another.

  

  Camilo
  • Feeling
  • Write
  • Someone

• I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Sad
  • Write
  • Songs

• Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Done

• If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Write

• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Write
  • Melody
  • Ecstasy

• I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Comfortable
  • Paper
  • Machine

• I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Want
  • Feels

• When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Write

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Hollywood

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