Write Quotes

• The call to write does not respect background or experience.

  

  Allen Wier
  • Respect
  • Write
  • Call

• I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.

  

  Ellen Raskin
  • Childhood
  • Write
  • Images

• Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.

  

  Bret Lott
  • Story
  • Write
  • Point Of View

• I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me all the time. It's funny, I don't really write too much in poetry about Hawaii, but I published a book of stories a couple of years ago.

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Poetry
  • Paradise
  • Hawaii

• I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Compose

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

  

  Simon Mawer
  • Novelist
  • Blank
  • Pundits

• Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

  

  Andrew Lakey
  • Language
  • Speak
  • Consciousness

• Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Write
  • I Feel

• It was a good chance for me to write lyrics that I was going to sing, I’ve always written lyrics for other people to sing. I thought. I’m going to write an album here, but i’m not going to write stuff that other people are gonna sing, because that would be pointless.

  

  Nick Hodgson
  • Write
  • Lyrics
  • Sing

• 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

• Writing is rewriting. A writer writes. And be fearless. Some people are going to hate what you write. It’s going to make some of them mad. In the end, you have to write for yourself.

  

  Ken Levine
  • Yourself
  • Write
  • Writer

• 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

• I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• 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

• I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun.

  

  James Jackson Toth
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Exist

• 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

• Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

  

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Like
  • Write
  • Get Over

• I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

  

  Celia Green
  • Long
  • Nothing
  • Say

• I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Reality
  • Tragedy
  • Fantasy

• 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

• Sit down and write it down with a pen and then make up your mind you are going to do it. Don't spend any time thinking of why you can't. The fun is not in getting it, the fun is in growing. Goals are to help us grow, goals are to help us get. The getting is a site benefit; the growth is the real benefit.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Growing

• All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it.

  

  Stephnie Weir
  • Hope
  • Write
  • Responds

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

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Write
  • Lines
  • Around

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

  

  Deanna Petherbridge
  • Practice
  • Drawing
  • Entire

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