Write Quotes

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess.

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

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