Write Quotes

• If Orwell had a chance to write 1984 from the vantage point of 1984 instead of 1948, perhaps he would have seen the class of hackers instead of the proles as a threat to Big Brother's rule.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Chance
  • Write
  • Orwell

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Change

• Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Write

• My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

  

  Amanda McKittrick Ros
  • Feel
  • Write
  • Works

• What I've been saying to people is that I write it.

  

  Topher Grace
  • People
  • Write

• 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

• In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.

  

  Bassam Tibi
  • Children
  • Society
  • Germany

• I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see - one has to keep oneself afloat.

  

  Neal Ascherson
  • Way
  • Novel
  • Journalism

• I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Song
  • Write
  • Visual Element

• 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
  • Music
  • Write
  • Confident

• 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

• 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

• 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 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
  • Feel
  • About
  • Extreme

• Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

  

  Steven Moffat
  • Write
  • Research
  • Happen

• The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Write
  • Read

• I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.

  

  Ayi Kwei Armah
  • Write
  • Despair
  • Failed

• 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
  • Write
  • Sound
  • Studio

• The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

  

  George Pelecanos
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Engine

• All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Real
  • Characters
  • Readers

• I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Song
  • Write
  • Album

• Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

  

  Susanna Moore
  • Yourself
  • Write
  • Begin

• The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

  

  Red Cloud
  • Educated
  • Civilized
  • Whites

• I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.

  

  Estelle
  • Write
  • Sing
  • I Care

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