Write Quotes
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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.
Frederic Chopin
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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
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When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
Anthony Kiedis
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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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
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My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.
Antoniette Costa
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All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it.
Stephnie Weir
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
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I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.
Ben Lerner
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If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
Eugen Weber
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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
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
Elsie de Wolfe
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Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.
Andrew Lakey
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
Uzodinma Iweala
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What I really meant to write to you about today was to tell you that I read your learned and technical and I am sure admirable denouncements of Walt Whitman with a respectful attention due to so much earnestness; and when I had done, and wondered awhile pleasantly at the amount of time for letter-writing the Foreign Office allows its young men, I stretched myself, and got my hat, and went down to the river; and I sat at the water's edge in the middle of a great many buttercups; and there was a little wind; and the little wind knocked the heads of the buttercups together; and it seemed to amuse them, or else something else did, for I do assure you I thought I heard them laugh.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
Nick Tosches