Write Quotes

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

I write in the studio.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

It's very hard to write humor.

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.