Write Quotes

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.