Write Quotes

• I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Write
  • Try

• When you write for yourself, it's 100 percent all your essence.

  

  Camilo
  • Yourself
  • Write
  • Essence

• I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Fond

• We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Trying
  • Speak
  • Write

• The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.

  

  Stephen McCauley
  • Write
  • Honesty
  • Responsible

• To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

  

  Phil Anselmo Pantera
  • Way
  • Record
  • Musician

• 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
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• I have a thousand melodies in my head, but I don't write them all down. I write down the jewels. So when I have a jewel I go into the studio. Jewels are hard to find--you have to dig.

  

  Ahmad Jamal
  • Head
  • Studio
  • Melodies

• I wanted to write a song not focused on looks. I realized a lot of songs, even when they are romantic, are more about how the artist feels than the person.

  

  Bryce Ross-Johnson
  • Song
  • Feel
  • Write

• I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Like
  • Feel

• I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what people want, you end up with the kind of same schlock that everybody else has got.

  

  John Prine
  • Interesting
  • Guessing
  • Whereas

• I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Guy
  • Hand
  • Big

• I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the lyrics. If they get it wrong, it almost means more to me, because it's morphed into something that is meaningful to them.

  

  Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls
  • Things
  • Write
  • Tear

• Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the successful stuff. It's the other stuff I have to work for to get right, and sometimes it doesn't work out, but the music is always the beginning. So I'm still a music journalist.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • You
  • Play
  • Write

• The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Rain
  • Roof
  • Torrents

• I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

  

  George M. Cohan
  • Write
  • Playwright
  • Danced

• He also managed to squeeze in some sightseeing: visiting the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall. Still, most of his energy was expended in the classroom, where he learned how to read and write Mandarin. After awhile, I gave up writing, ... But I still could comprehend the characters.

  

  Cheryl Baker Bucks Fizz
  • Energy
  • Characters
  • Comprehend

• I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Solo

• I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Story
  • Write
  • Rubbish

• So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Why
  • You
  • Write

• We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Write
  • Find Out

• So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Dying
  • Danger

• No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Years
  • Write
  • Twelve

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