Write Quotes

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

I never listen to music when I write.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.