Write Quotes

• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Song
  • Morning
  • Write

• 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 think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

  

  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Learning
  • Write
  • Read

• I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Film
  • Works
  • Personal

• Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue; I don't even remember what day it was.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Remember
  • Mood
  • Realize

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

  

  Celia Green
  • Long
  • Nothing
  • Say

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

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Write
  • Lines
  • Around

• 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 never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.

  

  Eve Golden
  • Book
  • Idea
  • Advertising

• 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

• You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Write
  • Hoping
  • Hold On

• 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 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

• 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

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

  

  Suzanne Collins
  • War
  • Write
  • Adolescents

• 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

• 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

• If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Soul
  • Wish
  • Write

• 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

• Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there. I prefer the creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.

  

  Bernice Rubens
  • Humor
  • Historical
  • Jewish

• 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

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

  

  Ruston Kelly
  • Pain
  • Write
  • Experiencing

• It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.

  

  Antjie Krog
  • Reason
  • Speak
  • Write

• 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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