Quotes about How to Write

Reading taught me how to write. Votes: 4

I know how to write fiction well. Votes: 4

I only know how to write musicals. Votes: 4

My mother taught me how to write. Votes: 4

I feel like I know how to write plot. Votes: 4

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. Votes: 4

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write. Votes: 4

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! Votes: 4

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. Votes: 4

I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic. Votes: 4

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write. Votes: 4

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write. Votes: 4

There is no rule on how to write. Votes: 3

I'm trying to learn how to write faster. Votes: 3

I don't know how to write a children's book. Votes: 3

I almost don't know how to write an email. Votes: 3

If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't. Votes: 3

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. Votes: 3

Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence. Votes: 3

To know whom to write for is to know how to write. Votes: 3

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me. Votes: 3

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story. Votes: 3

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written Votes: 3

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards. Votes: 3

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song. Votes: 3

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story. Votes: 3

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Votes: 3

It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. Votes: 3

Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter Votes: 3

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it. Votes: 3

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email. Votes: 3

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song. Votes: 3

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write. Votes: 3

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write. Votes: 3

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite Votes: 3

You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics. Votes: 3

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. Votes: 3

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write. Votes: 3

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. Votes: 3

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. Votes: 3

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. Votes: 3

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story. Votes: 3

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. Votes: 3

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois, Votes: 3

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write. Votes: 3

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! Votes: 3

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts. Votes: 3

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. Votes: 3

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. Votes: 3

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one. Votes: 3

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith. Votes: 3

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. Votes: 3

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from. Votes: 3

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. Votes: 3

It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write. Votes: 3

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. Votes: 3

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life. Votes: 3

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point. Votes: 3

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. Votes: 3

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory. Votes: 3

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. Votes: 3

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. Votes: 3

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it. Votes: 3

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty. Votes: 3

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. Votes: 3

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. Votes: 3

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. Votes: 3

You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel. Votes: 3

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write. Votes: 3

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind. Votes: 3

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write. Votes: 3

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine. Votes: 3

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again. Votes: 3

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. Votes: 3

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. Votes: 3

I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around. Votes: 3

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. Votes: 3

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen. Votes: 3

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens. Votes: 3

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. Votes: 3

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song. Votes: 3

It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret. Votes: 3

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me. Votes: 3

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write. Votes: 3

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian. Votes: 3

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. Votes: 3

I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie? Votes: 3

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler Votes: 3

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Votes: 3

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write. Votes: 3

I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead. Votes: 3

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound. Votes: 3

They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. Votes: 3

If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn't even know how to write that. Votes: 3

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Votes: 3

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves. Votes: 3

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?" Votes: 3

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories. Votes: 3

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling. Votes: 3

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. Votes: 3

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them. Votes: 3

In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now. Votes: 3

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable. Votes: 3

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon. Votes: 3

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish. Votes: 3

I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything. Votes: 3

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair. Votes: 3

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. Votes: 3

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting. Votes: 3

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants. Votes: 3

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write. Votes: 3

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags. Votes: 3

The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write. Votes: 3

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. Votes: 3

But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry. Votes: 3

For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write Votes: 3

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. Votes: 3

I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false. Votes: 3

I love films from all these different points of views that used the idea of the school as a way to talk about the American experience. It took me a while to figure how to write a movie like that, because that's not something you learn at film school Votes: 3

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift. Votes: 2

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies. Votes: 2

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write. Votes: 2

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write. Votes: 2

I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue. Votes: 2

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like. Votes: 2

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt. Votes: 2

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself. Votes: 2

I write based on how I feel. Votes: 0

How do you write zero in Roman numerals? Votes: 0

How can you write if you can't cry? Votes: 0

How can you contrive to write so even? Votes: 0

I like how I write better than how I speak. Votes: 0

I just write from how I feel. As an outlet. Votes: 0

It is easy to write when you don't know how. Votes: 0

I write to find out about how the world sings. Votes: 0

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint? Votes: 0

How well I would write if I were not here! Votes: 0

Every child should be taught how to think, read and write. Votes: 0

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how. Votes: 0

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off. Votes: 0

I don't really know how to do much else besides write. Votes: 0

Every child must be taught how to think, read and write. Votes: 0

Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. Votes: 0

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. Votes: 0

You can write a book on how to ruin someone's perfect day. Votes: 0

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. Votes: 0

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? Votes: 0

I love my work but do not know how I write it. Votes: 0

The way to write is well, and how is your own business. Votes: 0

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length. Votes: 0

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. Votes: 0

Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it! Votes: 0

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name. Votes: 0

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound. Votes: 0

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how. Votes: 0

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. Votes: 0

If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it? Votes: 0

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I? Votes: 0

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels. Votes: 0

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. Votes: 0

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it. Votes: 0

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. Votes: 0

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. Votes: 0

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there? Votes: 0

I don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters. Votes: 0

I can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it. Votes: 0

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Votes: 0

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place. Votes: 0

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' Votes: 0

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. Votes: 0

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. Votes: 0

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write. Votes: 0

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think. Votes: 0

I'll write you a check. I'll write you a check. How do you spell Sheamus? Votes: 0

Best gift you give your kids is to learn them how to read and write". Votes: 0

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE Votes: 0

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it. Votes: 0

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. Votes: 0

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive. Votes: 0

How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write? Votes: 0

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it. Votes: 0

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' Votes: 0

I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie. Votes: 0

How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write~? Votes: 0

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. Votes: 0

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.' Votes: 0

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. Votes: 0

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good. Votes: 0

Just write what You want to write, how You want to write it! K.D.Faerydae Votes: 0

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book. Votes: 0

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it. Votes: 0

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are. Votes: 0

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing. Votes: 0

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. Votes: 0

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly? Votes: 0

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. Votes: 0

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories. Votes: 0

They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write. Votes: 0

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. Votes: 0

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Votes: 0

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business. Votes: 0

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to. Votes: 0

Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures]. Votes: 0

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. Votes: 0

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works. Votes: 0

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that? Votes: 0

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? Votes: 0

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it. Votes: 0

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. Votes: 0

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books. Votes: 0

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be. Votes: 0

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!! Votes: 0

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life? Votes: 0

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine. Votes: 0

When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?" Votes: 0

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. Votes: 0

Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day Votes: 0

I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right. Votes: 0

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. Votes: 0

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. Votes: 0

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing. Votes: 0

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too. Votes: 0

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts. Votes: 0

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is. Votes: 0

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are? Votes: 0

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. Votes: 0

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller. Votes: 0

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it Votes: 0

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. Votes: 0

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together. Votes: 0

If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels. Votes: 0

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. Votes: 0

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell! Votes: 0

I'm not sure I'll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should've said. Votes: 0

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. Votes: 0

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other. Votes: 0

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? Votes: 0

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. Votes: 0

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it. Votes: 0

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. Votes: 0

Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.I'd rather write about laughing than crying,For laughter makes men human, and courageous." Votes: 0

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story? Votes: 0

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. Votes: 0

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me. Votes: 0

I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something. Votes: 0

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am. Votes: 0

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write. Votes: 0

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff. Votes: 0

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money. Votes: 0

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.' Votes: 0

Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. Votes: 0

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act? Votes: 0

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about. Votes: 0

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery. Votes: 0

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written. Votes: 0

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. Votes: 0

A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think. Votes: 0

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous. Votes: 0

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it. Votes: 0

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. Votes: 0

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write? Votes: 0

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded. Votes: 0

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry. Votes: 0

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory. Votes: 0

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write. Votes: 0

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel. Votes: 0

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free. Votes: 0

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go. Votes: 0

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong. Votes: 0

These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally. Votes: 0

These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally. Votes: 0

I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially. Votes: 0

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby. Votes: 0

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured. Votes: 0

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!' Votes: 0

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry. Votes: 0

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start. Votes: 0

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write. Votes: 0

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things. Votes: 0

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. Votes: 0

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy. Votes: 0

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write Votes: 0

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write. Votes: 0

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it. Votes: 0

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. Votes: 0

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are. Votes: 0

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write. Votes: 0

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about. Votes: 0

I always go through different phases of how I write and record. It takes me a long time to kind of conceptualize what feels right. Votes: 0

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question. Votes: 0

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed. Votes: 0

Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live. Votes: 0

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances. Votes: 0

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs. Votes: 0

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. Votes: 0

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up. Votes: 0

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good. Votes: 0

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. Votes: 0

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy. Votes: 0

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book. Votes: 0

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music. Votes: 0

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. Votes: 0

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter. Votes: 0

I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have. I love to sing. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week. Votes: 0

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups. Votes: 0

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that. Votes: 0

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall. Votes: 0

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it? Votes: 0

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write. Votes: 0

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate. Votes: 0

I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write. Votes: 0

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence. Votes: 0

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end. Votes: 0

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. Votes: 0

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love. Votes: 0

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. Votes: 0

I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him. Votes: 0

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. Votes: 0

How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean. Votes: 0

Thinking before writing how I feel. That's how I'm able to write all the lies and wrongs. How else can one write something like a fake smile ? Votes: 0

Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed. Votes: 0

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain. Votes: 0

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination. Votes: 0

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists. Votes: 0

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism. Votes: 0

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job. Votes: 0

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it. Votes: 0

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see. Votes: 0

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day. Votes: 0

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? Votes: 0

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it Votes: 0

Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated, or perhaps just older. Votes: 0

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving. Votes: 0

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. Votes: 0

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning. Votes: 0

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks Votes: 0

Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it. Votes: 0

I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it. Votes: 0

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys. Votes: 0

How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing. Votes: 0

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin. Votes: 0

I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.' Votes: 0

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right. Votes: 0

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel. Votes: 0

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. Votes: 0

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward. Votes: 0

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer. Votes: 0

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. Votes: 0

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey. Votes: 0

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that?? Votes: 0

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension. Votes: 0

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job. Votes: 0

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other. Votes: 0

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel. Votes: 0

I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am. Votes: 0

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy. Votes: 0

When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line. Votes: 0

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives. Votes: 0

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened. Votes: 0

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?' Votes: 0