Top 100 Write On Quotes
#1. I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.
Martin Sorrell
#2. People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.
Gary Shteyngart
#3. Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
Ted Dekker
#4. Write on a screen that has no Internet access.
Bruno Heller
#5. A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing ...
Dorothy Bryant
#6. sex has a price tag. What price will you write on the tag? Is it something cheap, that can be given away with no commitment and short-term fulfilment. Or is it a precious, intimate gift, to be shared with one person under the covenant of marriage?
Sarah Coleman
#7. I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
Garrison Keillor
#8. I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
Lou Reed
#9. Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips
#10. My future was a blank slate and only I could write on it.
Carter Quinn
#11. Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know
Will Ferrell
#12. When you're (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there's no other way to preserve it.
Shauna Niequist
#13. The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired.
I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day.
Make the time, keep at it, and you'll be a real writer before you know it.
Jonathan Maas
#14. What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin
#15. It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.
Harold Ramis
#16. I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.
Jane Austen
#17. I mostly write on my own, walking, outside.
Bjork
#18. I think I see my life already starting to write on my next decision the adventures of a loneliness which for the first time in years can stand being alone again.
Angelos Michalopoulos
#19. I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
Nora Roberts
#20. When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.
Kiran Desai
#21. Which I would write on Sunday afternoons sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor with no pants on.
Mindy Kaling
#23. If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.
Noah Hawley
#24. Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.
Jean Paul
#25. A writer is the one who loves to write ... on and about anything ... And this clears that I am a writer!!
Anamika Mishra
#26. I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.
Marilynne Robinson
#27. Stop being self-conscious when you write.
You are the expert about the world you are creating,
no one else. So be bold and write on.
Nirav Sanchaniya
#28. The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
Eldridge Cleaver
#29. I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.
Ryan Coogler
#30. You have 365 new blank pages. What will you write on first blank page?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#33. I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.
Garrison Keillor
#35. I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.
Tom Petty
#36. I write on the typewriter. I like it because I like the feeling of making something with my hands. I like pressing the key and a letter comes up and is printed on a piece of paper. I can understand that.
David McCullough
#37. I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
Tommy Shaw
#38. I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't believe in chemical enhancement of my writing. Just slight, but nothing crazy.
Chang-rae Lee
#39. Spread on your bravery, line the eyes and the lips," I say under my breath as I write on the paper, "glue up the cracks and paint over the rips." I
Penelope Douglas
#40. Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.
Steve Jordan
#41. I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
Robin Williams
#42. A writer shouldn't be restricted to any single race, society or even country, he or she has to be for the entire world, and writers should try to write on global issues that are affecting peoples' life in a direct or indirect way.
Tim I. Gurung
#43. Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Jean Paul
#44. I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
Melissa Lee-Houghton
#45. I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.
Douglas Kennedy
#46. I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.
Jill Scott
#47. I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I'm set to stop.
Aimee Bender
#48. Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard
#49. When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#50. I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all - what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page - do they want someone to write on it?
Wilfrid
#51. I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.
Paul Anka
#52. I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
Flo Rida
#53. Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.
Eve Merriam
#54. You always have a lot going on Harper. It's like your thing. When you die in a hundred years, they'll probably write on your gravestone, 'Here lies Harper Price-Dang it, She Still had Stuff To Do!
Rachel Hawkins
#55. Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.
Benjamin Franklin
#56. I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.
Ashanti
#57. My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.
Sally Potter
#58. You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
Mignon McLaughlin
#60. When hypocrites force me to shut my mouth, I write.
But if there's no stationaries at all, I'll write on ground.
Toba Beta
#61. I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
Louisa May Alcott
#62. Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the lyric and rhythm, kind of. Sometimes it's a track I fall I love with ... but writing my own songs, I rarely write on tracks.
Tove Lo
#63. Pretend you want to do something else and write on the sly until you're free to do whatever you want!
J.K. Rowling
#64. I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
Beck
#65. Writing is not a noun, it's a verb. Writing is not a destination, it's a journey. You should not write to accomplish anything but to write. Write on!
Rodney L. Carlson
#66. You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.
Jodi Picoult
#67. I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.
Brett Ratner
#68. You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
Courtney Love
#69. I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.
Jodi Picoult
#70. I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.
Adam Schlesinger
#71. Everything looked charming to him now. Never again would he read these books, write on this little white wooden table!
Victor Hugo
#72. One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
Carlo Ratti
#73. I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.
Mary Roach
#75. I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.
Jeff Tweedy
#76. I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.
Emma Roberts
#77. In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'
Albert Schweitzer
#78. Merrett suddenly didn't look at ease anymore. "Lydia . . . what did you write on the name tag?" She tilted her head at him as she answered. "I wrote Watkins' name on it.
Ian Mitchell Gill
#79. You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.
Richard Ford
#80. I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
Brian May
#81. Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.
J. B. Smoove
#82. I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#83. When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.
Antony Sher
#84. I like to write on airplanes ... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.
Jon Foreman
#85. It is unclear how much longer people will write on dried and flattened wood. Trees do so much for humans and for our planet that it hardly seems fair to ask them to carry our thoughts as well. From Life from an RNA World: The Ancestor Within.
Michael Yarus
#86. I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.
Richard Greenberg
#87. We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.
John Larkin
#88. These may or may not be used in your actual novels, but it will give you a sense of relationships and help you establish the habits needed to write on a regular basis.
Patricia Gilliam
#89. I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.
George Whitefield
#90. Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
Rumi
#91. Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#92. In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.
Erich Hoeber
#93. Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.
Dan Poynter
#94. I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
Sloane Crosley
#95. What did you write on here? 'Don't die'?"
"No, I wrote, 'Don't be an asshole!'"I headed for the house.
"On yours or mine?"
"On yours."
"Well, in that case, your magic isn't working. I'm still an asshole.
Ilona Andrews
#96. I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
Edan Lepucki
#97. Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.
Meghan Trainor
#98. I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.
Dave Brubeck
#99. I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.
Charles Krauthammer
#100. Reputation is not a treatise you write on your own behavior. Other people write it, and other people keep it.
Calvin Miller
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