Write Quotes

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

I don't write about my life in my column.

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

All experience helps when you write.

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.