Write Quotes

The show is different every night, because I never write a setlist.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.