Write Quotes

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.

If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

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.

The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.