Write Quotes

• 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
  • Communities

• Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Death
  • Wish
  • Pain

• I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

  

  Joseph Wambaugh
  • Book
  • Write
  • Disciplined

• It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you do, but at the same time when you write from a place that's very personal and quite isolated, at least for me, there's something that almost doesn't feel natural about it.

  

  Alexi Murdoch
  • Write
  • Stage
  • Natural

• 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
  • Songs
  • Emotion
  • Lyrics

• I start with the joke line and write backward.

  

  Nipsey Russell
  • Write
  • Joke
  • Backward

• I produce more movies than I write, but when I write, it is such an immersive, intense process that it probably takes as much or more time than producing multiple movies.

  

  Simon Kinberg
  • Process
  • Intense
  • Producing

• I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Write
  • Record
  • Album

• When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Song
  • See
  • Own

• No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Write
  • Strangers

• Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

  

  Simon Mawer
  • Novelist
  • Blank
  • Pundits

• Today I've written to the EU Commission urging an end to the "use-it-or-lose-it" rule that's leading to 'ghost planes' during this COVID-19 outbreak. Temporary relief now makes both environmental and financial sense.

  

  Grant Shapps
  • Sense
  • Rule
  • Relief

• I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• 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

• I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

  

  Anna Kamienska
  • Wish
  • Poetry
  • Write

• You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Material

• What I write deals with relationships, with making families. It just follows that I would often write about family and what it means.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Write
  • Relationships
  • Deals

• I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.

  

  Jizzy Pearl
  • Write
  • Experiences
  • Around

• 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
  • Dream
  • Failure
  • Believes

• I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Write
  • Lines
  • Around

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

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Write
  • Read

• I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Write
  • Questions
  • Writers

• It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

  

  Deanna Petherbridge
  • Practice
  • Drawing
  • Entire

• If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

  

  Anne Stuart
  • Risk
  • Write

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