Write Quotes
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You have to live your story before being able to write your story.
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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.
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Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.
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I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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Those who write clearly have readers.
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.
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Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.
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I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.
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If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.
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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.
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I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!
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The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
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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.
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He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.
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I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.
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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.
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I write about what I know – the places I’ve worked, the situations I’ve found myself in.
