Write Quotes
- Page 3It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
David Foster Wallace
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
Nate Ruess
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
Gwendolyn Brooks
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
Tom T. Hall
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.
Sidney Sheldon
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.
Michael Chabon
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
John Mayall
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
Lynn Abbey
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
Nate Silver
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Edward Koch
I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.
Lee Child
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
David Wilkerson
I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.
Andy Milonakis
When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.
Andrew Motion
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
Paul Westerberg
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
Joyce Carol Oates
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
James J. Corbett
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.
Anne Tyler