Write Quotes

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

I write about my life.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.