Write Quotes

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.

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

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.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.