Write Quotes · Page 44

It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of…

— Dweezil Zappa

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met…

— Charles Kelley

I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much…

— Ben Schott

Typically, I would run away from conflict and write about it - that was easier than staying and dealing face-to-face with humans;…

— Alanis Morissette

I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and…

— Sam Shepard

I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But…

— Kyle Dunnigan

People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I…

— Elmore Leonard

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll…

— David Mazzucchelli

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

— George Murray

I binge write, basically. I do a lot of prep, research, setup. I'll have a pretty detailed outline. Sort of like a…

— Cary Fukunaga

Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.

— Alan Alda

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about…

— Kenneth Oppel

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

— Jackie Evancho

I write because I enjoy it and that I can give it to my granddaughter.

— Sudha Murty

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to…

— Graeme Base

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

— Anonymous

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment…

— Don Everly

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where…

— Josh Turner

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

— Bill Dedman

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my…

— Robert Osborne

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

— Henry Mancini

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

— Jessie Baylin

I've noticed that when I write I tend to have slightly poppier melodies.

— Jen Ledger

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would…

— Ian Frazier

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

— Morris Gleitzman

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't…

— Catherine Tate

Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of…

— Stephen Sondheim

When I got out of high school, I thought, 'I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this…

— Gregg Allman

When I want to put out an album, I want to write it. I want to be able to say that I…

— Jimmy Bennett

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

— Sophie Hannah

People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm…

— Kaskade

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean…

— John Scalzi

I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of…

— Jeff Kinney

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read…

— Hannah Cowley

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

— Kara Hayward

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't…

— Miguel Syjuco