Write Quotes
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When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.
William Lashner
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When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.
Andrea Brown
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Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.
Alan Weisman
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I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.
Michael Franks
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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.
Ernest Lehman
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
George Bernard Shaw
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
Robin Williams
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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Flannery O'Connor
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According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.
Haruki Murakami
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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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.
Lord Byron
