Write Quotes

• We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Write
  • Depended

• I don't write every day, but if I go more than a couple of months without writing, I begin to get a little nervous. I usually have bursts of poems. Five or six come together and then I slack off and want to do something else.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Together
  • Nervous
  • Poems

• Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Write
  • Album
  • Insight

• Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Write
  • Project
  • Gut

• I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

  

  Amira Hass
  • Write
  • Happen
  • Journalist

• I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.

  

  Elise Valmorbida
  • Reading
  • Connect
  • My Mind

• I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Know
  • Write
  • Happens

• Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

  

  Nick Flynn
  • Write
  • Need
  • Inner

• Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.

  

  Eddie Adams
  • Words
  • Weapons
  • Photographs

• Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • History
  • Rule
  • Democratic

• We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them - to experience more life, through imagination.

  

  Steven Saylor
  • Experience
  • Imagination
  • Fiction

• I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Words
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way. es

  

  Israel Horovitz
  • Write
  • Questions
  • Ask

• 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

• The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

  

  Judith Krantz
  • Write
  • Try
  • Find Out

• It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Wordless

• You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

  

  Amy Shearn
  • Live
  • Story
  • Write

• Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Write
  • Theory
  • Gender

• I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart, the same that had burst out of my chest in that distant moment when Lila had proposed that we write a story together. It had fallen to me to do it seriously. But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts, which no one would ever do better than me, not even Lila if she had had the opportunity?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Heart
  • Opportunity
  • Purpose

• You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Weird
  • Write
  • Intention

• I don't have a journal; I write music.

  

  Michael J. Willett
  • Music
  • Write
  • Journal

• Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences

  

  Annie Ernaux
  • Moment
  • Write
  • Accident

• I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Write
  • Master
  • Directing

• Everybody struggles with get tiring as a musician having to play the same songs over and over again on one level or another. That is why you're cast to write the best songs you can. It keeps it going for you. My old man used to tell me be careful what you write you might have to play it for the rest of your life. That is always a challenge and the best way to remedy it is to write.

  

  Crosby Loggins
  • Play
  • Best
  • Same

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