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So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

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.