Write - Quotes
Write them, above all, in your heart; there they can be neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.
We should not seek immortality in reproduction. But if you contribute to the world`s culture, if you have a good idea, compose a tune, invent a spark plug, write a poem, it may live on, intact, long after your genes have dissolved in the common pool.
People talk about books that write themselves, and it`s a lie. Books don`t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you`d believe.
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, `I am going to produce a work of art`. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.
You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen, or because writing will mend something broken inside you, or bring something back to life.
If you don`t have time to read, you don`t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Don`t promise that you`re gonna write
Don`t promise that you`ll call
Just promise that you won`t forget we had it all
Cause you were mine, for the summer
Now we know it`s nearly over
Feels like snow in September
But I always will remember
You were my summer love
You always will be my summer love.
I`ve got a jet black heart
And there`s a hurricane underneath it
Trying to keep us apart
I write with a poison pen
But these chemicals moving between us
Are the reason to start again.