Write Quotes

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

I write from my stomach.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.