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The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

I like to write a joke without any fat on it.The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

To write is a humiliation.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

I can write anywhere.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.