Write Quotes
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
Patrick Ness -
I like to process things and I do like to write about what I’m feeling and when something really emotionally hits me, whether it’s joyful or traumatic, I know I need to write about it to get that experience out.
Noah Kahan
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The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in
Paul Williams The Temptations -
We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot of the times people will try too hard to write everything themselves and therefor miss out on great songs that way.
Jason Aldean -
I've never been able to write for stand-up.
Elayne Boosler -
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
Craig Claiborne -
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
Oscar Wilde
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I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.
Al Barr -
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
Brian May Queen -
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.
Walker Percy -
Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it.
Kingsley Amis -
Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.
Rita Hayworth
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If I don't have the potential to write in different styles and sing in different voices and play in different ways, I won't stay inspired.
Ben Harper -
Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.
Cameron Crowe -
Whether or not you write well, write bravely.
Bill Stout -
Write to one person, not a million.
Fairfax Cone -
Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.
Kerry King Slayer -
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
Billy Joel
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When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
Jennifer Donnelly -
I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.
Rex Orange County -
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 -
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