Write Quotes · Page 109

I write songs, and there is a definite need to express myself through my music.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

— Kim Carnes

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

— Kyp Malone

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

— Samuel Johnson

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

— Samuel Beckett

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

— Tate Donovan

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

— Kevin Parker

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

— Shawn Wayans

I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I…

— Jenny Han

“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves.”

— Guy Kawasaki

“We are each the author of our own story. No matter the past, we compose today’s pages. The trick is in deciding…

— Emmanuelle de Maupassant

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it…

— Chang-Rae Lee

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient…

— John Gardner

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I…

— Leon Russell

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

— Maya Angelou

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

— Harvey Pekar

“I still wanted to prove that I was the best of all the second-rate writers. I refused all further requests to write…

— Koonchung Chan

I never think about it much, the visual aspect of it, until we start making the movie. I don't really think about…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph…

— Rick Riordan

When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that…

— Kate DiCamillo

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise…

— William Lashner

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all…

— Kaki King

Songwriting is one thing that I have blessed to myself. It's a very personal thing for me, the business is very shared…

— William Clark Green

I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers,…

— Stephen King

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

— Cass McCombs

I write about whatever inspires me, people, incidents anything.

— Bhumika Chawla

“Sometimes, all you have to do, is write something dow”

— Vivian Martin

There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

— Irvine Welsh

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

— Fran Lebowitz

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

— Henry Miller

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

— Quentin Tarantino

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

— Len Deighton

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

— Rick Riordan

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.

— Sara Genn

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

— Kate Adie

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

— Rod Serling

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

— Margaret Wise Brown

If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.

— Don McLean

The second album is the hardest to write. It's nothing like the first album.

— Theophilus London