Top 1200 Why We Write Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

And you don't have to be a preacher to carry on. That's why I've gone into the theater, with my mother's blessings, and someday I may write, produce and act in my own story of daddy's life. There are so many sides to his story. I hope that someday I could get that opportunity.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.

The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

The only time I write with someone else is with one of my friends but I write everything myself.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead of time, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants for the first draft.

I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.

I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

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

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly.

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."

I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.

I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?'

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.