Write Quotes

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

I make time to write.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.