Write Quotes · Page 40

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write…

— Ray Charles

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going…

— Todd Rundgren

Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until…

— Jane Gardam

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is…

— Cecelia Ahern

In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I…

— Trevor Rabin

“The pen provides a pathway for the musings of the heart.”

— Erin Forbes

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

— Pontus Hulten

I won't write a book. I haven't got a magnum opus in me.

— Nigel Pearson

Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil…

— Hilary Mantel

The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get…

— Michael Hirst

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's…

— Stephen Stills

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

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

— Edmund White

For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the…

— Tess Gerritsen

I write all the time.

— Jean Marsh

I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

— Creed Bratton

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because…

— Richard Flanagan

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

— Annette Bening

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so…

— James Fenton

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

— George Pelecanos

I would like to write a play.

— Tim Rice

I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy…

— Big Sean

I want to write from my own experience.

— Rich Brian

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

— Krzysztof Penderecki