Write Quotes

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

You've got to live life to write a book about it.

My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.

William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.