Write Quotes

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.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.