Write Quotes

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.