Write Quotes

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.