Write Quotes

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.

I just write mechanical things.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

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.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.