Write Quotes

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.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

I'm lucky if I write a letter.

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.