Write Quotes
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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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Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
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Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn't mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.
Bill Gates
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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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And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
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Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.
Allegra Goodman
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I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana
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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
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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 am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind. .. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me.
Robert H. Schuller
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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
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I do not write for an audience.
Leon Uris
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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
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If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.
Brett Dennen
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I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.
Bruce Willis
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
Plato
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We write to make sense of it all.
Wallace Stegner
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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
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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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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
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In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
Estelle