Write Quotes

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• 'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, but it arrived like this. I'd been listening to a lot of Garrison Keillor at the time. I love that simple story that ends on a grace note and you go, 'Wow, I'm just happy to be alive right now.' That was the feeling I was chasing.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Write
  • Sheet Of Paper

• Tony Perkins wrote that out for me - he actually wrote out 2, he wrote out the number 2 Corinthians, I took exactly what Tony said, and I said, 'Well Tony has to know better than anybody.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Write
  • Tony Perkins
  • Know Better

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Grandmother
  • Read

• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Create
  • Joke
  • Absurd

• The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, “Oh my God, this song is totally about me.”

  

  Adele
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Joy
  • Melancholy
  • Catharsis

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Connect

• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Songs
  • Definitely

• If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Write
  • Say

• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Write
  • Interest
  • Watch

• Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Mother
  • Symbol
  • Palestine

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
  • Never
  • Write

• I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • English
  • Language
  • Educated

• I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Write
  • Walk

• I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Write
  • Novel

• I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Forever
  • Will
  • Meant To Be

• Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Write
  • Say
  • Classic

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

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