Write Quotes

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

  

  Camilo
  • Feeling
  • Write
  • Someone

• 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

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

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Write

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

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Funny
  • Write
  • Nothing

• It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.

  

  Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots
  • Fans
  • Songs
  • Limelight

• 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 not the guy to ask to write a sequel.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Guy
  • Write
  • Ask

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

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Hearts

• 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

• It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • Songs
  • Building
  • Changing

• 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

• I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Change
  • Wanted
  • Novelist

• 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

• I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Kids
  • Inspired
  • Movies

• I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• 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'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Songs

• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Silence
  • Write
  • Own

• To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Write

• Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Critics
  • Surgeon

• I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Write
  • Careers
  • Several

• Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt that they weren't really for me. But I think that happens naturally when you write songs. You're in a different mood in every session. There's so many songs out there that could potentially be used by other artists.

  

  Fleur East
  • Writing
  • Songs
  • Mood

• I write poems to find out why I write them.

  

  Stephen Dobyns
  • Write
  • Poems
  • Find Out

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