Write Quotes

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.