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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.

I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.