Quotes of: Write Keyword

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Mark Strand

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

Vikram Seth

I write romance because I love to read romance.

Rachel Gibson

I never listen to music when I write.

Augusten Burroughs

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Amy Winehouse

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

Eric Whitacre

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

Laurence Fox

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

Lisa Marie Presley

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

Steve Winwood

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

Annette Bening

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Albert Camus

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

Adrienne Kennedy

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

Alison Tyler

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Anthony Trollope

I really think that writing about sex is writing about the mind.

Love

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it

William Meikle

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

W. Somerset Maugham

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

William Howard Taft

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

Emeli Sande

I wrote when I was scared. It was all I knew to do- writing. It kept my fears firmly on the white paper before me rather than running loose around my head.

Call of the Warrior: An Anthology Presented by Read, Write, Muse

I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life