Write Quotes

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

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 would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.