Write Quotes
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal.
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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
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The world is full of paper, write to me.
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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
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Never write a letter while you are angry.
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When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.
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My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
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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.
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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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When you want to learn about how people write, their unpolished, unguarded words are the best place to start, and we have reams of them.
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Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.
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I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.
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Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
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Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.
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Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves.
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I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.
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IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
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But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
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Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.
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A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.
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There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.
