Write Quotes

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

Because to write, one must truly suffer.

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it.

I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.