Write Quotes

I write music with an exclamation point!

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

My mother taught me how to write.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.