Write Quotes

• Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Write
  • Books
  • Confide

• But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

  

  William Joyce
  • Stories
  • Matter
  • Draw

• I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Write
  • I Don't Know

• In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.

  

  Alda Merini
  • Moment
  • Write
  • Flowers

• O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

  

  William Blake
  • Truth
  • Rock
  • Write

• I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Look

• You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

  

  Arthur Plotnik
  • Write
  • Inside
  • Burning

• When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

  

  Ace Antonio Hall
  • Write
  • Plan
  • Shine

• The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Write
  • Trouble
  • Rule

• When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.

  

  Arthur Mattuck
  • Hands
  • Wave
  • Pages

• I write music with an exclamation point!

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Write
  • Point
  • Exclamation

• Just write it down. Its much easier to go back and change it once its already on the screen.

  

  Andy McNab
  • Change
  • Write
  • Screen

• Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

  

  Ann M. Martin
  • Way
  • Write
  • Works

• I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Write
  • Scripts
  • Screenwriting

• I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Inspiration
  • Write

• I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Job
  • Characters
  • Horror

• I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Write

• I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a transportational capacity... Hella, put in parentheses! And write 'hog.' Signed- Behemoth.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Question
  • Write
  • Ball

• I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Write
  • Block
  • Educate

• I tend to write about people. I look at things from the bottom up and from the perspective of outsiders. A part of me just identifies with them. It's my messed up internal nature that I always feel like an outsider. It's just my nature. At film festivals, I was an outsider for sure, but I always felt like one as well. I have that feeling at parties, too. I don't belong there.

  

  Alex Kotlowitz
  • People
  • Write
  • Outsider

• Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Change

• I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other things - in the odd times when I'm traveling, or in hotels, or when I get time to be alone with my thoughts.

  

  Allison Joseph
  • Alone
  • Thoughts
  • Write

• I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

  

  George Sewell
  • Write
  • Clever
  • Autobiographies

• For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

  

  Alan Licht
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Musician

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