Write Quotes

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

If you can talk, you can write.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.