I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I write this as a sort of last will and testament. To all those who come after me, be warned. What I did in Midnight Falls was necessary.”
Source: Midnight Falls
“I write this book not as a testimony to vanity, but rather as a humble hope to inspire or move others to greater kindness, sensitivity, and commitment to our world and to the precious people we call our family and our extended brothers and sisters in this life.”
Source: A Walk in the Twilight: A Librarian searching for questions
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
Source: I Capture The Castle
“I write this with confidence in that we will heal millions of people. We will do so through our writing.”
“I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted”
“I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.”
“I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.”
“I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.”
“I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.”
“I write to be the characters that I am not.”
“I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.”
“I write to believe in goodness.”
“I write to better acquaint myself with my own thoughts and feelings. I don’t know how other people process existence, but if I don’t get it down on the page, I’ll never really understand it.”
Source: Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays
“I write to breathe life back into memory.”
Source: The Warmest December
“I write to cover a frame of ideas.”
“I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.”
Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert
“I Write to Destroy You (The Sonnet)
I don’t write to pamper your ego,
I don't write to give you comfort.
I don't write to teach you self-love,
I write to destroy all selfish thought.
I don't write to inspire your pride,
I don't write to cater to your insecurity.
I don't write to entertain shallowness,
I only write to abolish self-centricity.
I don't write to tickle the instaslaves,
I don't write to peddle false perfection.
I don't write to lick the privileged boots,
I write to make soldiers of self-annihilation.
My science and my art were born on the street.
That's where I learnt, all suffering is born of greed.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“I write to discover what I know.”
“I write to discover what I think.”
“I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.”
“I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.”
“I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.”
“I write to escape ... to escape poverty.”
“I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it”
“I write to explore the spaces between love and obsession, truth and illusion.”
“I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?”
“I write to find out about how the world sings.”
“I write to find out what I am thinking.
I write to find out who I am.
I write to understand things.”
“I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.”
“I write to find out what I think.”
Source: The Colorado Kid
“I write to find out what I'm talking about.”
“I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.”
“I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to light the way through the darkness for others.
I write to be seen and heard.
I write to be near those I love.
I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper.
I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.
I write past the embarrassment of exposure.
I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal.
I write myself out of nightmares.
I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.
I write to remember.
I write knowing conversations don’t always take place.
I write because speaking can’t be reread.
I write to sooth a mind that races.
I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.
I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.
I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.
I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.
I write to provide a legacy.
I write to make sense out of senselessness.
I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding.
I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.
I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time.
I write because God loves stories.
I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.”
“I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.”
“I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.”
Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems
“I write to get ideas out of my head”
“I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for me, certain books, just by reading a phrase I feel I can write.”
“I write to give myself strength.”
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.”
“I write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise. I write to hear myself breathing. I write to be doing something while I wait to be called to my appointment with death. I write to be done writing. I write because writing is fun.”
“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”
“I write to keep their light alive, and to listen for what still echoes in the dark.”
Source: The Night Has Its Own Darkness: Where Forgotten Women Speak Again | Poetic Monologues, Ritual, and Remembrance Across Time | A Timeless Gift for Lovers of History and Women’s Voices
“I write to live.”
Source: Keeper of Backwards Men
“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change.”
“I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey”
“I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.”
“I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.”
“I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.”
“I write to please myself.”
“I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.”