Write Quotes

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

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.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.