You Write Quotes

619 quotes by 486 authors

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so… — Helen Mirren
It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name. — Dave Mustaine
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V.S. Naipaul
When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's… — Conor Oberst
I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll… — Matthew Perry
I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and… — Eli Roth
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. — Salman Rushdie
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down. — Salman Rushdie
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously,… — Salman Rushdie
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to… — Salman Rushdie
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. — John Sayles
You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. — Robert Schumann
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. — Ed Sheeran
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours. — Sidney Sheldon
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what… — J. Michael Straczynski
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. — Theodore Sturgeon
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. — Harry Stack Sullivan
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one. — Taylor Swift
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't… — Justin Timberlake

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