Top 56 Write Alive Quotes
#1. What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.
Lynn Freed
#2. When you write a memory, it isn't in the past anyway. It's alive right now.
Natalie Goldberg
#3. I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.
Rick Ross
#4. So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
Lurlene McDaniel
#5. And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.
Nick Drake
#6. I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.
Denis Johnson
#7. You've got this look I can't describe,
You make me feel like I'm alive,
When everything else is au fait,
Without a doubt you're on my side,
Heaven has been away too long,
Can't find the words to write this song,
Oh ... Your love
Corinne Bailey Rae
#8. I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.
Augusten Burroughs
#9. Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.
Criss Jami
#10. Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music ...
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#11. I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.
Ken Bruen
#12. The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
Anais Nin
#13. I don't need to write light, to see light.
You are only disabled, if you disable yourself.
I may have an illness, but I am not the illness
Truth is, despite what they may say, I'll get out of this world alive.
I am the Gospel of Myself.
Alexej Savreux
#14. What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#15. But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer ... well, it's like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can't just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.
Dean Koontz
#16. I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.
Russell Means
#17. If your parents are still alive, call them today and ask them to describe the day you were born. Write the details down here, on the following pages. Tell the story every year on your birthday until you know it by heart.
Amy Poehler
#18. Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
R.A. Salvatore
#20. Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of ... I write songs and then almost ... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from.
Ellie Goulding
#21. I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
Maeve Binchy
#22. I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.
Frank P. Ryan
#23. To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art - borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.
Dorianne Laux
#24. Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
Maureen Dowd
#25. There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.
Edward Hirsch
#26. Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
Sammy Hagar
#27. I simply write what I want, wish, long to write ... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.
Tanith Lee
#28. If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.
Kristin Armstrong
#29. Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.
Robert Lynd
#30. I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.
Kiki Dimoula
#31. Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.
Siri Hustvedt
#32. I write because I can remember and to keep those memories alive. I write for pleasure. I write because I must.
F.M. Burgett
#33. Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.
Natalie Goldberg
#34. I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
Philip Roth
#35. Exercise II.
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:
Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple.
Joe Dunthorne
#36. I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.
Bruce Willis
#37. I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
Tracy Kidder
#38. It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.
George R R Martin
#39. I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.
Jonathan Dee
#40. First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.
Niccolo Tucci
#41. I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.
Jenny Lewis
#42. He who remains alive, remains alive to write the histories in a light favorable to him and his cause.
R.A. Salvatore
#43. By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.
Michael Musto
#44. I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
Dolly Parton
#45. I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.
Woody Allen
#46. How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write.
Lori Foster
#47. I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world.
K.M. Randall
#48. He: I want you to write a love story
She: About?
He: About a boy for whom a girl wasn't his soulmate, but she was his soul- the one who kept him alive.
She: And what should I call it?
He: Just name it our love story
Namrata
#49. I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.
Susan Sontag
#50. On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive.
C.J. Heck
#51. If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren't, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?
Padgett Powell
#53. Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.
Mathieu Amalric
#54. All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
Ernest Gaines
#55. I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.
Ernest Hemingway,
#56. I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.
Akira Kurosawa
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