Write Quotes

• 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 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

• We always make our records really quickly, and this time we're gonna just slow it all down. Usually we write 12 or 13 songs, and then we just record them and that's it. We'd like to write, like, 40 songs and really spend a lot more time writing than we ever have.

  

  Mike Einziger Incubus
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Record

• If I did not have the ability to write, I would find myself completely defenseless!

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • Ability
  • Defenseless
  • Not Have

• Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

  

  Barbara Carrera
  • Write
  • My Life
  • Rapture

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

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Write
  • Literacy
  • Illiterates

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Bridget of Sweden
  • Live
  • Speak
  • Vanity

• Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Ignorance
  • Novel

• 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

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

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Up
  • Write

• There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Write
  • Reader
  • Authors

• When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Waiting
  • Inspiration
  • Write

• Whether or not you write well, write bravely.

  

  Bill Stout
  • Write
  • Bravely

• It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Learn
  • Write

• 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

• 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

• Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

  

  Alex Lemon
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Ferocity

• I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • People
  • Emphasis
  • Syllable

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

  

  Robert Frost
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Learn

• 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

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