Quotes about Write it Down

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. Votes: 4

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat. Votes: 4

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering. Votes: 4

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it down, then tomorrow I will forget it and it's gone. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

When revelation comes write it down. Votes: 3

To memorize something,it's best to write it down. Votes: 3

Live it up so you can write it down. Votes: 3

It's not an idea until you write it down. Votes: 3

Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper. Votes: 3

As soon as a thought darts, I write it down. Votes: 3

If you write it down, you can make it happen. Votes: 3

I don't know what I think until I write it down. Votes: 3

Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around. Votes: 3

In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down. Votes: 3

Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference. Votes: 3

When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it Votes: 3

If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective. Votes: 3

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself. Votes: 3

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. Votes: 3

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down. Votes: 3

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember. Votes: 3

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not. Votes: 3

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives. Votes: 3

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down. Votes: 3

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it. Votes: 3

A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down. Votes: 3

That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down. Votes: 3

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay. Votes: 3

Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Votes: 3

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. Votes: 3

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing. Votes: 3

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life. Votes: 3

For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. Votes: 3

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals. Votes: 3

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down. Votes: 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! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down. Votes: 3

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go. Votes: 3

I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough. Votes: 3

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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: 3

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. Votes: 3

If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish. Votes: 3

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down. Votes: 3

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea. Votes: 3

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it. Votes: 3

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment. Votes: 3

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst. Votes: 3

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost. Votes: 3

Songwriters can't explain. You get an idea and you don't know where it's come from. And if you're lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down. Votes: 3

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down. Votes: 3

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it. Votes: 3

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down. Votes: 3

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down. Votes: 3

A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps. A plan becomes a reality only when you take action. Votes: 3

I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down. As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition. Votes: 3

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down. Votes: 3

Celebrate your day of birthday as special day.Make a specific birthday wishes and write it down.You will be amazed about the power of pen and inner strength to accomplish the wishes.This will be a special gift for yourself on each birthday. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it in your head. Sometimes you don't always have to write it down. You just write it down so you can remember it. Votes: 3

I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning. Votes: 3

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to. Votes: 3

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner. Votes: 2

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play. Votes: 2

When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts. Votes: 2

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Votes: 2

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do. Votes: 2

I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way. Votes: 2

Write it down in your own handwriting. Votes: 0

Write it down and it will come alive. Votes: 0

Write down your goals and let it be your guidepost. Votes: 0

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down. Votes: 0

Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow. Votes: 0

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play Votes: 0

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence. Votes: 0

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself. Votes: 0

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more, Votes: 0

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. Votes: 0

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! Votes: 0

There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down. Votes: 0

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words"”almost as though one were inventing them. Votes: 0

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. Votes: 0

All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it. Votes: 0

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass. Votes: 0

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

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... Votes: 0

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write. Votes: 0

You ought to write down your goals. It serves as a guidepost and gives strength for purposeful action. Votes: 0

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it Votes: 0

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. Votes: 0

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever. Votes: 0

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. Votes: 0

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive. Votes: 0

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. Votes: 0

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it. 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

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it. Votes: 0

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. Votes: 0

When you write something down, it stays forever.It's like a little part of you that you're giving to the universe Votes: 0

Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense. Votes: 0

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs. Votes: 0

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. 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 don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. Votes: 0

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it. Votes: 0

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. Votes: 0

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us. Votes: 0

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse. Votes: 0

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well. Votes: 0

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. Votes: 0

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it. Votes: 0

Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it. Votes: 0

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write. Votes: 0

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out. Votes: 0

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction. Votes: 0

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists Votes: 0

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo. Votes: 0

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. Votes: 0

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? Votes: 0

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder. Votes: 0

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it. Votes: 0

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it. Votes: 0

...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them. Votes: 0

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny. Votes: 0

Want to detox yourself? Write down your dreams each morning in a journal and reflect. It's like cleaning out the cookies from your mental computer. Votes: 0

The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song. Votes: 0

I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it. Votes: 0

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it. Votes: 0

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. Votes: 0

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well. Votes: 0

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard. 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

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down. Votes: 0

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Votes: 0

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down. Votes: 0

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas. Votes: 0

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. Votes: 0

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that. Votes: 0

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it. Votes: 0

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time. Votes: 0

When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny. Votes: 0

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself. Votes: 0

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page. Votes: 0

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out. Votes: 0

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off. Votes: 0

Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind. Votes: 0

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we'll be with each other all the time, even if we're not with each other at all. Votes: 0

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it. Votes: 0

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it. Votes: 0

I've always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary 'Running Down A Dream'. I was directly influenced, it made me want to go write. Votes: 0

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about. Votes: 0

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much. Votes: 0

I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut. Votes: 0

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from. Votes: 0

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow. Votes: 0

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done. Votes: 0

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life. Votes: 0

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that. Votes: 0

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places. Votes: 0

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it's hard to go there. I didn't sit down and go, 'I want to write something about my dad now.' Votes: 0

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it! Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble. Votes: 0