Write Quotes · Page 92

I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic…

— Melora Hardin

Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I…

— Nick Cave

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce…

— Gloria Estefan

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

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

— Anthony Horowitz

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over…

— Cecelia Ahern

I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but…

— Ben Brantley

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

— Rita Dove

I can't watch formulaic films and hence, won't write or make one such film.

— Arvind Swami

I've been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not…

— Kresley Cole

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

— John Hope

There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my…

— Jerry Jeff Walker

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming…

— Helen Garner

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

— Jim Capaldi

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every…

— Tony Buzan

I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee,…

— Orhan Pamuk

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give…

— Cass McCombs

I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy…

— Lori Foster

I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I…

— Liane Moriarty

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want…

— Gay Talese

“The grace of writing is upon me. I love writing. I write daily.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's…

— Joanne Harris

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

— William Nicholson

Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am…

— Alison Weir

Bad things should be written in the sand and Good things carved in stone so that they could be remembered.

— Vikrant Parsai

Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work…

— Benny Blanco

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or…

— Sophie Hannah

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm…

— Morris Gleitzman

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to…

— Daniel Handler

Because it was my first DC project, I wanted to make sure that if I only got one issue out of it,…

— Charles Soule

Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.

— Nigel Barker

I like to write, and I try to be positive and optimistic.

— Keith Hernandez

I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write…

— Bebe Moore Campbell

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can…

— Christopher Lee

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good.…

— Joy Fielding

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

— Anonymous

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

— Richard Flanagan

To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen…

— Cherrelle

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

— Alan Menken

I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write…

— Bertha von Suttner