Write Quotes
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Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it.
Kingsley Amis
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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
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Paul McCartney and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.
Marco Polo
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I essentially write for myself.
Leon Uris
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I wanted to write a very anathematic pop song. If you had to choose one great thing in your life, what would it be?
Stuart Adamson Big Country
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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
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It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.
Mary Pipher
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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop.
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the Comedy Central Roasts for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
Whitney Cummings
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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
Billy Joel
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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 wish we had been more organized and determined with respect to carving out the time that we needed to write.
Ossie Davis
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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
Jane Austen
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You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.
Harry Styles One Direction
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Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
Judith Guest
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We write a batch of songs and they come out as they come out. It’s not preconceived. It just turns out there are loads of epics on this album. We have high standards for what we want to achieve, but it’s not really well thought-out at all. We allow ourselves a six week writing period to give us enough pressure to bring it out.
Steve Harris Iron Maiden
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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
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All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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You write how you write, wherever you write.
Christian Rudder
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The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.
Andy Kim
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With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror.
Geoff Thompson