Write Quotes

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.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.