Write Quotes

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

I essentially write for myself.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

I love to write. It's my first love.

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

People do write books.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.