Write Quotes
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
Paloma Faith -
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
Philip Glass
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank -
I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'
Adele -
Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
Matsuo Basho -
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 -
There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.
Ben Harper
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That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I won't say extremely prolific, but I try to write stuff that will last a long time.
Dave Mason -
Our image, if we have one, has been shaped only by me, Tom and Richard and the songs we write.
Tim Rice-Oxley Keane -
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
Padma Lakshmi -
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
Joanne Rowling -
I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.
Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
Yann Martel -
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
Patricia Briggs -
Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
Zoe Saldana -
That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn -
I play piano and write better than I can sing.
Irene Cara Escalera -
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Oscar Wilde
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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra Pound -
I should not wonder, now, if you, Ralph, were to go home and write a book detailing our adventures in these parts, that at least half the sportsmen of England would be in Africa next year, and the race of gorillas would probably become extinct.
R. M. Ballantyne -
I do not write, I build.
Alvar Aalto -
All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
Padgett Powell