Write Quotes

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

I'd love to write for other people.

He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

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 do not write for an audience.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.