Write Quotes

• As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • Rap
  • Scene

• If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Want
  • Write
  • Direction

• I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.

  

  Rex Orange County
  • Songs
  • Produce
  • Instruments

• I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Afraid

• I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Write
  • Sentence
  • I Don't Know

• 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

• I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Write
  • Data

• Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Hearts

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

  

  Camilo
  • Feeling
  • Write
  • Someone

• You write about what you know.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Know
  • Write

• A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Students

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

  

  Dave Mason
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Prolific

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

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Want
  • Like
  • Write

• 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

• I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • True
  • Write
  • Promise

• I like to process things and I do like to write about what I’m feeling and when something really emotionally hits me, whether it’s joyful or traumatic, I know I need to write about it to get that experience out.

  

  Noah Kahan
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Write

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Funny
  • Write
  • Nothing

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

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Hollywood

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

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Guy
  • Write
  • Ask

• A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Write
  • Worked

• I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Career
  • Stories
  • Editor

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