Write Quotes
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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.
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It doesn't have a life of its own. You guys can write about it. But it's been weird.
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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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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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I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
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I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.
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My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.
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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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I wanted to write in you.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so happy and grateful now that...' and then explain how you want your life to be in every area.
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
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I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
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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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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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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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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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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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Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
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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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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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Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?
