Write Quotes

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.