Write Quotes · Page 42

Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.

— Tom Stoppard

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

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year…

— Toby Keith

When I realized I could write lyrics and let someone that I knew listen to them, but not know that the song…

— King Krule

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and…

— Jeff Garlin

I rarely sit down to write something. I usually have an experience and relate it to somebody and go, 'There I connected…

— Greg Behrendt

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

— Kevin Brockmeier

I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my…

— Jason Mraz

It was either write or die for me.

— Michael Hastings

I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks…

— Corey Taylor

'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so…

— Jonathan Tropper

I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at…

— Waka Flocka Flame

I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what…

— Henning Mankell

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

— Earl King

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

— Michael Morpurgo

To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was…

— Chino Moreno

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And…

— Harry Mathews

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent,…

— Danielle Steel

The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my…

— Helen Oyeyemi

My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.

— King Tuff

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

— Dario Fo

I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able…

— Aimee Bender

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

— Richard LaGravenese

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I…

— Sophie Kinsella

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want…

— Orhan Pamuk

People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

— Steve Toltz

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history…

— Robert Wilson

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink,…

— Dave Sim

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk…

— Julia Glass

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

— Kabir Bedi

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing…

— Tristram Stuart

Our future is ours to write.

— Blaise Matuidi

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did…

— Antony Sher

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

— Lois Lowry

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

— Tate Donovan

I don't think I do any formal research. Life is my research. I always begin with a character. I write a chapter…

— Patricia MacLachlan

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.

— Morris Hite

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard…

— Valeria Golino

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was…

— Joel Edgerton

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

— Cynthia Kadohata