Write Quotes

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I don't write songs.

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

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.