Write Quotes

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

I don't write books inadvertently.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.