Write Quotes

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

When you're rich you don't write checks.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.