Write Quotes

I write what I'm interested in.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Write about winter in the summer.

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.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.