Write Quotes
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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I don't write every day, but if I go more than a couple of months without writing, I begin to get a little nervous. I usually have bursts of poems. Five or six come together and then I slack off and want to do something else.
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If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
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Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.
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I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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I wanted to write in you.
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What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
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The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
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I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
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Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
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Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?
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It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"
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Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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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.
