Write Quotes

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

You write about what you know.

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.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

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.