Quotes of: I-write Keyword

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

Jann Klose

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

George Bernard Shaw

Young Celie: Write! Nettie: What? Young Celie: Write! Nettie: Nothing but death can keep me from it!

The Color Purple

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

Johnny Rivers

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Augusten Burroughs

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

Andy Gibb

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

Sara Sheridan

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.

Love

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.

Life

Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!

Life

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Will Rogers

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Catharine and Other Writings

I would write my tears, weeping out my pain - I would empty my veins for ink.

Enigmatic Evolution

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what they really represented was, they'd come from this age of shared music.

Greg Lake

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

Melissa Marr

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

Taiye Selasi

I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to my husband to all of my brothers. They are true heroes!

Gena Showalter

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Lisa Marie Presley

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

Anthony Kiedis

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

Gavin Bryars

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

John Banville