Write Quotes

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.