Quotes of: Write Keyword

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Jeffery Deaver

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Jann Klose

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

Jeremy Lin

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

Lana Del Rey

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.

Christian Kane

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

J. A. Jance

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

Jerry Only

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

Nelson DeMille

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

Tom Petty

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

Simone Elkeles

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

The Color Purple

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

Shelby Foote

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

Ne-Yo

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

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

Brian Wilson

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

Bruce Vilanch