Nicky Wire famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.
-- Nicky Wire

#Writing #Looks
I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker.
-- Nicky Wire

#Pretentious
I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In todayâ€™s society, thereâ€™s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why canâ€™t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?
-- Nicky Wire

#Book #Thinking #People
The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon.
-- Nicky Wire

#America #Lennon #Good Things
If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.
-- Nicky Wire

#Thinking #People #Make You Think
A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
-- Nicky Wire

#Paper #Pages #Possibility

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Nicky Wire famous quotes

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