Top 100 Write It Down Quotes
#1. You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. "How, though?" Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. "Memorize it. Then write it down for him.
Markus Zusak
#2. Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.
Betty Parsons
#3. I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!
Thighpaulsandra
#4. Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.
Anne Lamott
#5. To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.
Wendy J. Dunn
#6. Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.
Wayne Koestenbaum
#8. Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.
Demetri Martin
#9. In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
Phil Harris
#10. To memorize something, it's best to write it down.
Koushun Takami
#11. May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Robertson Davies
#12. If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out in the lobby, and then you go home and you kill yourself.
Louis C.K.
#13. It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.
Donna Tartt
#14. I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
Patrick Ness
#15. That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
Jimmy Buffett
#16. It wasn't permanent like the limestone cross that flagged the mountain peak in the horizon, so he made sure to write it down. After making the sign of the cross, a deep hunger pulled his weight to the bottom of La Loma.
Richard Yanez
#17. So what do you desire to do? What do you really want to do as a person? You need to stop and document that; write it down; make a plan; and then God says, 'I'll direct your steps.'
Myles Munroe
#18. If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.
Wally Lamb
#19. If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.
T.F. Hodge
#20. Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.
Isaac Hanson
#21. I haven't dared say it aloud, I didn't dare write it down before, but what if it was the monster?
Jack Croxall
#22. The computer's password protected. I try the basics: 1,2,3,4. QWERTY. YTREWQ, which is qwerty backward. PASSWORD. A few others. Whoever uses this computer isn't quite that dumb. They are, however, dumb enough to write it down in the corner of the desk blotter.
Michael Grant
#23. We always we'll remember a certain incredible moment in life but if we don't write it down we probably won't.
Demi Lovato
#24. All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
Jeet Thayil
#26. The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
Stephen Malkmus
#27. If you don't write it down - " "Then it never happened.
Tom Clancy
#28. Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.
Jack Canfield
#29. Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.
Jim Rohn
#30. If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
Tommy Shaw
#31. I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down.
Steve McQueen
#32. Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#33. I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.
Paul Taylor
#34. To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.
Ardyth Kennelly
#35. To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
Mark Nepo
#37. Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
Ice-T
#38. How clever of them, I thought. They kept the feeling all secret; they wouldn't even let you write it down.
Sylvia Plath
#39. A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.
Bryant McGill
#40. Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and who knows what he'll do with those words? Ye might as weel nail a man's shadow tae the wall!
Terry Pratchett
#41. Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!
Jane Smiley
#42. For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
Janeane Garofalo
#43. When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
Marti Melville
#44. I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.
Robert Pinsky
#45. Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference.
Cheryl Richardson
#46. Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a difference. Touch someone's heart.
S. Sloan
#47. Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
Byron Katie
#48. The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Salman Rushdie
#49. I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.
Joe Zawinul
#50. That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming.
Melissa Rosenberg
#51. If you have an idea. WRITE IT DOWN.
L Hodgson
#52. When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it
Pope Francis
#53. I don't know what I think until I write it down.
Joan Didion
#54. I'm an author. We don't want to lead. We don't need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people's heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don't. We never know. We just make stuff up.
Neil Gaiman
#55. Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll think of a sentence, and then realize that it will for sure get deleted. Then I won't even write it down.
Murong Xuecun
#56. Think about what you are passionate about. Dream about it. Write it down. Read it always. Now, live it. Whatever you are passionate about will directly lead you to your purpose!
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something real happens (something unified, dramatic and pretty saleable), and they just write it down?
Martin Amis
#58. Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.
Andre Brink
#60. If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.
Amy Ray
#61. Love is a four letter word if you speak it or write it down, but it becomes powerful once you feel it and live in it.
The Prolific Penman
#62. Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul
Ace Antonio Hall
#63. I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.
Jill Scott
#65. If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.
Summer Sanders
#66. It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.
Gail Zappa
#67. Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it.
Alexandra Adornetto
#68. Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.
Smokey Robinson
#69. Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.
George A. Sheehan
#70. The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.
Richard G. Scott
#71. Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
Damien Hirst
#72. And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk out loud the way I write things down. I wish I didn't always feel like I was on the outside, looking in like a Peeping Tom.
Jacqueline Woodson
#73. Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.
Michel Ocelot
#74. Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.
Billy Gardell
#75. Sometimes he wrote equations, or musical notation, sometimes he wrote in Latin; he refused to tell her what it was about. "Nothing," he said. "I have nothing important or original to say, yet I feel compelled to express myself, so I just write it down and let it go.
Gwendolen Gross
#76. I've now learned how to do it, I can write anywhere. I'm the type of person that will get a random idea and then I'll have to write it down and then continue on it. It can be anywhere. It doesn't have to be a set place.
Alessia Cara
#77. Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
Tom Clancy
#78. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
John Darnielle
#79. Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
John Sandford
#80. It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.
Tyler Hilton
#81. The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa ... Write it down!
Dave Attell
#82. It's a way of clearing the palate. Kids come into the classroom with all this other stuff in their hands. If they write it down for 10 minutes they become much more available for whatever it is we want to do in the class.
Joan Countryman
#83. Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.
Michael Schiavo
#84. I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of my blood and onto the page, through the dark point of the pen
Robin Sloan
#85. Battles are won en route, Shalhassan of Cathal though. A worthy thought: he raised his hand in a certain way, and a moment later Razeil galloped up, uneasy on a horse at speed, and the Supreme Lord of Cathal made him write it down.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#86. Writing has always been my go-to form of expression. Whenever I was going through something as a kid, I would write it down and I would turn it into a poem.
Jhene Aiko
#87. My school was 17 years as a player and another 16 watching more games probably than any coach has - all over the world, all systems. I couldn't go to school and write it down for people who are far less experienced, telling me what to do and how to do it.
Andy Gray
#88. I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.
Linda Ronstadt
#89. Write it down, no matter how silly you think it is, the next time you look at it, it might be perfect !
Phil Barnes
#90. I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.
Emma Donoghue
#91. Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then write it down.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
#93. He leaned in close and spoke low. Wow, I don't know what the hell I did to put that look on your face, but you need to write it down so I can commit it to memory.
Shelly Crane
#95. If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down.
Jim Rohn
#96. Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you'd like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.
Keith Donohue
#97. Hagrid gulped, but no words came out. "Could you write it down?" Harry suggested. "Nah - can't spell it. All right - Voldemort.
J.K. Rowling
#98. Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook ... and use it to list all the good in your life.
Peter McWilliams
#99. I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.
Nicole Holofcener
#100. That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.
Ruth Ozeki
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