Top 1200 Why We Write Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.

While I write for myself, I also write for other artists too.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it's not good enough, write another one.

Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

I write chronologically in my life, so whatever's going on, I write about it. Usually, that's when I feel the most cohesive body of work is formed. I got to live this crazy life, I got to write about it, and now I've got this record that I'm really proud of, too. It's not done, but when I put it out, it's gonna be good.

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I'm feeling on any given day. I don't really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

I find songs today very fake. I can't write according to the meter, but I can write from my heart.

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

Of course I write from experience, but I also do write from things that have happened in the world.

I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.

That's why I make mixtapes. That's why I work with Don Cannon; that's why i work with Big Sean. Even though I don't rap, I got love and acceptance in that community, and that's something that I really take seriously and hold close to my heart.

I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you how to write your book, but it helps you understand why things aren't working, or what kind of beat needs to come next.

I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.