Write Quotes
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
Al Pacino -
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
Jennifer Donnelly
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I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.
Adele -
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Ed Byrne -
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.
William Faulkner -
I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
Blaise Pascal
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I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.
Exene Cervenka -
Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
Marge Piercy -
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
Alejandro Zambra -
In a way I never did with George W. Bush or Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, I will write about the actions of the Trump presidency with the working assumption that our nation must be protected both by and from the president.
Benjamin Wittes -
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
Syd Barrett Pink Floyd -
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.
Larry Gelbart -
The call to write does not respect background or experience.
Allen Wier -
In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
George Shearing
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I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
Mike Stoller -
Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
Bret Lott -
I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with that. A lot of times it's just acoustic guitar and a small riff that produces a song. Ultimately you want to write a song that people are going to enjoy and that you love to play, most importantly you have to write it for yourself first.
Barry Kerch -
I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find myself keeping track of ideas that come along, as probably most writers do, and whatever seems most interesting to me when I flip through my notes before I begin a new story is usually what I will try to write about next.
Christine Sneed