Write Quotes

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I don't write songs.

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.