Write Things Quotes

53 quotes by 48 authors

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place… — Anthony Holden
As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it… — Damien Hirst
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was… — Jonathan Franzen
It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way… — Jim Capaldi
I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man,… — Paul Westerberg
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at… — Stephen Colbert
I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things… — Heidi Klum
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to… — Tom Waits
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write… — Haruki Murakami
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read. — Giacomo Casanova
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to… — Betty Smith
I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what… — Neil Gaiman
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… — Joan Didion
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. — Albert Einstein
I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you… — Anne Rice
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat… — Richard Siken
I want to stop. I want to stay on FÃ¥rÃ¶, and read the books I havenâ€™t read, find out things I havenâ€™t yet found out.… — Ingmar Bergman
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. — Daniel Handler

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