Write Quotes
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My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
Paul Klee -
I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.
Sarah Dessen
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Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.
Ann M. Martin -
We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong way... people can adventure a little.
Danny Carey -
I tend to write in the mornings.
Scott Turow -
You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.
Abdellah Taia -
If you write to a title, the song sort of writes itself. I don’t find making music to be too problematic. It’s all the third party nonsense surrounding music that I don’t deal with so well.
John Mitchell Arena
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I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.
Suzanne Vega -
I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.
Steve Reich -
If you’re a person that feels it one day and then doesn’t feel it the next day, then you’ve got to only write on the days that you feel it.
Dan Wilson -
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 -
You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe -
I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.
Barbara Christian
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Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
Alan Alda -
But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
Ernest Lehman -
We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
Wallace Stegner -
To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
Jasper Fforde -
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.
Ernest Hemingway -
When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
Sean Durkin
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Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
Judith Guest -
You have to write badly in order to write well.
William Faulkner -
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
Miguel de Cervantes -
It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
William Jay Smith