Write Quotes

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

Paul [McCartney] and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.

I write songs because that's the thing I chose to do. And I can't help writing them, that's a fact. Sometimes I felt as though you worked to justify your existence, but you don't; you work to exist, and vice versa, and that's it, really.

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way, leave room for God to walk in the room, and when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say, 'Thank You.

For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children, but no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew, or write.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

People's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

I would like to ask you, what would you like to be remembered for? You should write it down. It could be an important contribution, whether it is an invention, an innovation or a change that you bring about in society that the nation will remember you for.