Write Quotes

• 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

• he council that will write the constitution should be elected, not hand-picked ... The constitution will be illegal if it is written by a council, whether that is chosen by the Americans or by what is called the Governing Council or by anyone else.

  

  Ali al-Sistani
  • Write
  • Constitution
  • Council

• If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

  

  Brenda Peterson
  • Pain
  • Sing
  • Dealing

• People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

  

  Austin Pendleton
  • Relationship
  • Theatre
  • Write

• 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

• I never used an outline until I started "The Bourne Legacy" project for which I was required to write an outline. To be honest, I thought I'd hate the idea, assuming that if I'd thought of all the ideas at the outset I'd have to incentive to actually write the book, because for me part of the joy of writing are the surprises you come upon as the book takes shape. But something curious and exciting happened. As I wrote the outline, some sections would be very detailed, others quite sketchy, so that whole portions of the book would be covered by one line, such as "Bourne is chased by Khan through Budapest," which when I wrote the novel turned out to be 40-50 pages! Now I'll never write a novel without first doing an outline. Looking back on it, I used to get bogged down in extraneous characters and situations, especially during the first 100 pages (which I find the most difficult to write) that I would later have to scrap, wasting time and energy, and frustrating me. Now that never happens.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Book
  • Energy
  • Joy

• I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Words
  • Write
  • Hours

• Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life.

  

  George Plimpton
  • Life
  • Write
  • To Do

• There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Person
  • Write
  • Fantasy

• I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, it's like they're trying to pretend it's not there.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Sex
  • Exist
  • Pretend

• Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

  

  Norman MacCaig
  • Write
  • Misunderstood

• Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.

  

  Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Write
  • Run
  • Poem

• Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

  

  Ree Drummond
  • Problem
  • Really
  • Knowing

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

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Write
  • Questions
  • Writers

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

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Write
  • Project
  • Gut

• It's much more important to write than to be written about.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • Write

• Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Language
  • Speak
  • Mankind

• 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

• 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

• If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Book
  • Write
  • Chunk

• I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Gods
  • Paradise
  • Forgive

• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  

  Anne Reeve Aldrich
  • War
  • Write
  • Inspire

• I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

  

  Allison Joseph
  • World
  • Write
  • Aspects

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