Write Quotes

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.