Write Quotes
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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
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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
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When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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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
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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
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Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey
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All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
Eliza Griswold
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If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where I'm clearly not confident and everything's a bit mid-range, nothing really pushes through.
Anna Meredith
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My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.
Michael Rapaport
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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
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I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring and problematic omission for me. But I also wanted to write that character as a person, not just a gay person.
Ayana Mathis
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
Sharon Jones
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You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.
Arthur Plotnik
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Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.
Bob Marley
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
Bradford Cox
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It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
Nuno Bettencourt
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No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Ed Byrne
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The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
Norman Davies
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Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.
Edna Buchanan
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I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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The worst thing in the world is to write something and be like that’s crap.
John Dolmayan System Of A Down
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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
Alan Licht
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To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.
Ardyth Kennelly