Write Quotes

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

I don't write books inadvertently.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'