Write Quotes
-
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco
-
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
Oscar Wilde
-
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
Karl Ove Knausgard
-
All we know how to do is write music and love God.
Sonny Sandoval P.O.D.
-
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
Will Champion Coldplay
-
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
-
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
-
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
Ignazio Silone
-
I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.
Alice Merton
-
I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
Adele
-
I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
Amy Lee Evanescence
-
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
Linda Ronstadt
-
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
-
To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.
Bridget of Sweden
-
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
Robert Frost
-
I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.
Marco Polo
-
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
-
Music is infinite and personal. I don't want to put myself in a box. I want to try everything and I'm trying everything. I'm really trying to write what's in my heart and what I feel without a lot of help in that department. It's about being brave.
Brandy
-
Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.
Bradford Cox
-
Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
-
To write about a place, you have to live there.
Jonathan Ames
-
People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.
Tones and I
-
If I did not have the ability to write, I would find myself completely defenseless!
Jen Selinsky
-
I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones