Write Quotes

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.

I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

Write what you care about.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.