Write Quotes

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.