Write Quotes
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In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.
Gaston Bachelard
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
Oscar Wilde
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I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.
George M. Cohan
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Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.
Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT
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It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.
Louise Erdrich
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I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
Arthur Schnitzler
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I write because I have authority from life to do so.
Bessie Head
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I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
Patrick Rothfuss
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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
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"I’m afraid to write to your father: he criticizes my spelling,” sneered Henny. “And it appears I know nothing about geography. Hang his stuck-up conceit.
Christina Stead
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Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
Eric Barker
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Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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It's easy to get into an easy routine but the problem with that is you can tend to write the same song over and over again.
Georgia Nott Broods
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I feel it strong in my heart and sing it and write it just because that's a part of Ben Harper, that's just a part of me, that makes me who I am.
Ben Harper
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If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.
Brenda Peterson
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If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco
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Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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All we know how to do is write music and love God.
Sonny Sandoval P.O.D.
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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
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I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
Linda Ronstadt
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No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
Ignazio Silone
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Write like there is no tomorrow so that others may read about today.
Jen Selinsky
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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
Maya Angelou