I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.”
“I write and film history; I don't make it.”
“I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.”
“I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music”
“I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.”
“I write and produce what is on my heart - whatever I'm going through and whatever God is taking me through, and I've been blessed to have people record, produce and buy our music. I'm a Christian man who happens to be Latino, not a Latino who happens to be a Christian.”
“I write - and read - to assure myself that other people have felt what I'm feeling too, that it isn't just me, that this is real, and valid, and true.”
Source: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
“I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.”
“I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.”
“I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.”
“I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.”
“I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.”
“I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.”
“I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.”
Source: A Breath of Life
“I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.”
“I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.”
“I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.”
“I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.”
“I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.”
“I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.”
Source: Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990
“I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.”
“I write as a witness to what I have seen.”
Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert
“I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.”
“I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.”
“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”
Source: A Breath of Life
“I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.”
“I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.”
Source: Experiment in Autobiography - Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866)
“I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.”
“I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.”
“I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.”
“I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.”
“I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to organize experience, to tell tales that dramatize the adventures which readers might have had. I have been that ancient man who sat by the campfire at night and regaled the hunters with imaginative recitations about their prowess. The job of an apple tree is to bear apples. The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.”
Source: The World Is My Home: A Memoir
“I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.”
“I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.”
“I write awe-thoughts flowing in my mind.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.”
“I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.”
“I write because he needs to know.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.”
“I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.”
“I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.”
“I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.”
“I write because I can't imagine not writing.”
“I write because I cannot NOT write.”
“I write because I can’t sleep.”
“I write because I carry a vulnerable heart.”
“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
“I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.”
“I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.”
Source: Conversations with William H. Gass
“I write because I have a small heart that is bruised and abandoned and I want ways to love it more and more.”