Quotes of: Write Keyword

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

Sean Kingston

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

Adam Jones

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Billy Joel

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

Margaret Cho

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Sting

Is this not the reason I write, to leave a piece of me behind?

Aisha Mirza

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I write things that I would like to read myself.

Love

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

Life

Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

Life

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

William H. Gass

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

Ziad Doueiri

My essay had evolved into thinking about fucking. You could be raped a thousand times and still be a virgin. I was writing about fucking by a master and fucking as a slave, about Hegel, the comfort women and teenage porno stars. Ms. Bain and Mr. Roto...

Maidenhead

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about getting up, getting well, an...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hur...

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness already, his madness, a kind of vigilence, unrelated to any wakefulness save sleep's: insomnia. Madness against madness, then....

The Writing of the Disaster

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to...

J.K. Rowling

Clara: Now, is it true that you've been injecting yourself with semen from baby pigs? Riggan: I'm sorry, what? Clara: As a method of facial rejuvenation. Riggan: Where did you read that? Clara: It was tweeted by @prostatewhispers. Riggan: No, that's ...

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, “Why do you wr...

William H. Gass

Who offends writes on sand, who is offended on marble.

Italian