Write Quotes

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.