Write Quotes

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

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.