Write Quotes

• If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Write
  • Screenplay

• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Understand
  • Torture
  • Great Pain

• ‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Taste
  • Ashes
  • Don't Write

• When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Music
  • Endures
  • Bravo

• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Heartbeat

• It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

  

  Gerald Brenan
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Amateurs

• I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Write
  • Type
  • I Know

• 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
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Sing

• The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

  

  Moliere
  • Book
  • Write
  • Loose

• He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Write
  • Ink

• I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Sad
  • Write
  • Songs

• To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

  

  Bridget of Sweden
  • Live
  • Speak
  • Vanity

• All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Learn

• 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
  • Write
  • Deal
  • Freebird

• If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Write

• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Dream
  • Write
  • Open

• I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

  

  Celia Johnson
  • Affair
  • Do Not
  • Autobiography

• Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.

  

  Al Jaffee
  • Drawing
  • Expression
  • Cartoonist

• I've never been able to write for stand-up.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Up
  • Write

• I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Never
  • Write
  • Memoirs

• I do not write for an audience.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Audience
  • Write

• The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Write
  • Literacy
  • Illiterates

• I wish we had been more organized and determined with respect to carving out the time that we needed to write.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Carving out

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