Write Quotes

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.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

I write about what I'm going through.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.