Write Quotes

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

I make time to write.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.