I Write Quotes

1668 I Write quotes by 1176 unique authors

The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other… — Marketa Irglova
I write to cover a frame of ideas. — H.G. Wells
Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on… — Sophy Burnham
I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear,… — Mat Johnson
Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look at… — Gideon Glick
Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been… — Agnes Denes
I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night… — Ester Dean
I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me. — Christopher Bollen
A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted… — Ryan Adams
I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How… — Ryan Adams
I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play… — Ryan Adams
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write. — Bertolt Brecht
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out. — Rainbow Rowell
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last… — Fernando Pessoa
I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself. — Fernando Pessoa
When I write, I solemnly visit myself. — Fernando Pessoa
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no… — Ernest Hemingway
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. — Erica Jong
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't… — Vincent Van Gogh
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour,… — David Sedaris
I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated,… — Thomas Merton
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. — Billy Joel
Of every four words I write, I strike out three. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence,… — Janet Fitch

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