Write Quotes

I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.

When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on “What’s the next piece I’m going to write, or draw, that’ll pay this month’s rent?” And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.

That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.

I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.