Write Quotes · Page 118

Mostly i write on an unplugged Mustang or a Baby Taylor.

— David Berman

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

— Anonymous

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

— Tea Obreht

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

— Gary Shteyngart

I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

— Kara Swisher

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will…

— Serge Schmemann

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it…

— Tino Sehgal

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat…

— Daniel Handler

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would…

— Brandon Flowers

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had…

— Mary Roach

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I…

— Vir Das

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you…

— Francoise Gilot

In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write…

— Billy Crystal

Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a…

— Stephen Hillenburg

A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and…

— Joseph Bruchac

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what…

— Andrew Greeley

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of…

— Ornette Coleman

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes…

— Jane Siberry

“This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae — my attempt to show how one writer was…

— Stephen King

I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.

— Jason Jones

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road

— Tommy Shaw

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

— Stephen Sondheim

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

— Cameron Crowe

I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

— Douglas Coupland

I couldn't write an AC/DC song. I don't know how to do that.

— Phil Rudd

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

— Bo Diddley

I wanted to write picture music ever since I was a kid.

— Henry Mancini

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

— Billy Sherwood

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

— David Friedman

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“We're all in this story together; let's write it well.”

— Steve Harvey

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.

— Mandy Moore