Write Quotes

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

If you can talk, you can write.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.