Write Quotes

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.