Write Quotes

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

I do not write for an audience.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Write as if you were dying.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.