Write Quotes

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.