Write Quotes

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.