Write Quotes

• Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5. I tried to make the most out of every situation that came along.

  

  Paul Downs Colaizzo
  • Write
  • Situation
  • Unemployment

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

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Write
  • Questions
  • Writers

• I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.

  

  Denise Duhamel
  • Reading
  • Impossible
  • Possible

• 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.

  

  Adele
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Giving

• Any story that I write or tell is rooted in personal truths in some fashion or another, so they’re all very personal to me.

  

  Josh Stewart
  • Story
  • Write
  • Personal

• 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

• I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this ideal schedule. Then I try to find time later in the day. I usually work at home, but sometimes, for a change I'll go to a library or a cafe. And I like to read poetry before I sit down to write.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Home
  • Everyday
  • Library

• 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

• I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

  

  Suzanne Collins
  • War
  • Write
  • Adolescents

• We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

  

  David Grossman
  • Grow
  • Fortunate
  • Close

• Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

  

  Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Love
  • History
  • Distance

• I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Remember
  • Rest
  • Forever

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

  

  Norman MacCaig
  • Write
  • Misunderstood

• At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Pleasure
  • Questions
  • Discovered

• I lived to write, and wrote to live.

  

  Samuel Rogers
  • Live
  • Write

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

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Write
  • Project
  • Gut

• No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

  

  Ed Byrne
  • Write
  • Suicide
  • Reading Books

• It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

  

  Angela Alioto
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Personal

• 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

• I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

  

  Alan Bennett
  • Mind
  • Write
  • Resolve

• I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.

  

  Nick Swardson
  • Write
  • Sense
  • Follow

• 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

• 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

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