Write Quotes

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Words
  • Write
  • Hours

• I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Book
  • Write
  • Word

• I can write about pain without experiencing pain, which I am thankful for.

  

  Ruston Kelly
  • Pain
  • Write
  • Experiencing

• Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.

  

  Ed Robertson
  • Audience
  • Songs
  • Humor

• I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Write
  • Poet
  • Short Story

• To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Golden
  • Guides
  • Struggles

• 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 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

• 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

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

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Write
  • Questions
  • Writers

• I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Things
  • Write
  • Trouble

• You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.

  

  Anthony of Sourozh
  • Power
  • Mother
  • Write

• All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

  

  Norman MacCaig
  • People
  • Know
  • Write

• Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Heart
  • Teaching
  • Ice Cream

• Greta, Greta, he whispered, eyes shut in rapture, on thy breast I write my Edda, at thy feet I lay the keys of Niflheim, by thy leave alone, I live, and breathe, and die.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Keys
  • Greta
  • Edda

• If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

  

  Anne Stuart
  • Risk
  • Write

• You really have to love the song you’re working on so this carries through if it takes a few weeks to get every last detail right. So the key is, write what you like and don’t worry about getting your hands dirty.

  

  Nasri
  • Song
  • Worry
  • Write

• I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Poetry
  • Write

• You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.

  

  Petra Haden
  • Write
  • Lyrics
  • Poet

• 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 myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Poetry
  • Write

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