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Quotes About Write

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
~ Allen Ginsberg
And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.
~ Amy Waldman
We humans have territories too. Ours are psychological. Stevie Wonder's territory is the piano. Arnold Schwarzenegger's is the gym. When Bill Gates pulls into the parking lot at Microsoft, he's on his territory. When I sit down to write, I'm on mine.
~ Steven Pressfield
When I looked up, Yaltha's eyes were settled on me. She said, "A man's holy of holies contains God's laws, but inside a woman's there are only longings." Then she tapped the flat bone over my heart and spoke the charge that caused something to flame up in my chest: "Write what's inside here, inside your holy of holies.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
A man's holy of holies contains God's laws, but inside a woman's there are only longings." Then she tapped the flat bone over my heart and spoke the charge that caused something to flame up in my chest: "Write what's inside here, inside your holy of holies.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.
~ Judy Collins
I used to want to be a critic. I think it's an awesome job. You get to watch all this stuff and then write about it and analyze it and give insight into it. That's an amazing job. I was terrible at it, though.
~ Sam Esmail
So much of life's dramas, good and bad, play out against family and so it's really inspiring for any number of stories in all the fields I write in.
~ Peter Hedges
A lot of people say my songs are political, but that's not by plan. It's because I never found a place where everything is OK, so I just write about what my reality is, follow my instinct.
~ Manu Chao
What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.
~ Wayne Rogers
I'd never intended to write a Christmas hit - I was a serious musician!
~ Chris Rea
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
~ Kathryn Schulz
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
~ Florence Nightingale
until they give me opportunity to write about matters that are not-me, the world must go on uninstructed and unreformed, and I can only do my best with the one small subject upon which I am allowed to discourse.
~ Helen Keller
I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.
~ Paul Eenhoorn
I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
~ George W. Bush
There is always a possibility that you could lose, because the outcome isn't written yet: you have to go out and write it. If you want it bad enough, if you do the training and prepare yourself to succeed, and do everything in your power to win, you'll have a better chance of succeeding.
~ Cain Velasquez
'Bomber' was the first song I wrote about war.
~ Lemmy
I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue.
~ Lauren DeStefano
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
~ Johnny Winter
I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'
~ Diablo Cody
I am delighted to be joining Paris Saint-Germain, a club where so many Brazilians have played and helped write the club's history. I will do everything I can to continue that tradition and write my own name into the club's history books.
~ Marquinhos
A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long.
~ Sloan Wilson