Write Quotes

My mother taught me how to write.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

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.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences.

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.