Write Quotes

• There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.

  

  Ada Limon
  • Write
  • Poem
  • Rage

• I write to discover what I know.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Write
  • Discover
  • I Know

• Minnie, I want to abolish the peerage. I write radical pamphlets in secret. I am not going to shriek, 'Oh, no! A scandal!' and run away.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Secret
  • Radical
  • Abolish

• A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!

  

  Anamika Mishra
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Loves

• I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Experience
  • Books
  • Songs

• I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my ears – "Write! Write". I wondered what could be the matter with me, and I began to walk backwards and forwards in a great fit of excitement, saying to myself– "I know nothing about poetry."

  

  William Topaz McGonagall
  • Poetry
  • Voice
  • Write

• When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world - I mean like it actually transcends language barriers - you see how it can affect people, and it's quite a tall order to follow up on.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Language
  • Write
  • Great Song

• You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Music
  • Books
  • Make

• I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that is very difficult, it is very foreign to a North American. A lot of people don't know about what's happening.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Write
  • Difficult
  • Cultures

• I know just playing live for us in general gives us motivation to do the kind of songs we want to write and even more focused on wanting to have it translate better live than songs we’ve written in the past.

  

  Jon Walker Panic! at the Disco
  • Write
  • motivation
  • Play Live

• I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

  

  Guan Moye
  • Write
  • Souls
  • Audiences

• 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

• All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Moment
  • Write

• Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

  

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Like
  • Write
  • Get Over

• It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.

  

  Antjie Krog
  • Reason
  • Speak
  • Write

• I love the Juno – I haven’t mastered the JP-80 yet but the Juno is so easy to use. I love the arpeggiator. I love the sounds, they’re all the sounds I like to write with.

  

  Isabella Summers Florence and the Machine
  • Write
  • Use
  • Sounds

• They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?

  

  Anton Bruckner
  • Write
  • Talent
  • Account

• 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
  • Good
  • Write
  • Songs

• We really take our music seriously and we take the band very seriously. But we have a lot of personality. So if we're going to write a song about kissing a girl, we're gonna write it. And people think we're a funny band, but we're just realistic, we put our personality into our lyrics.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Feel
  • Songs
  • Come

• He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Write
  • Readers
  • Not Expect

• More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

  

  Jonathan Dee
  • Stop
  • Write
  • Junk

• 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

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