Write Quotes

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.