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And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.

And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month and a half to write them, and it took me a while to realize that I was in charge.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

It's actually harder to write a fun song.