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I don't think I could write a straight drama.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

I like to write a joke without any fat on it.The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

To write is a humiliation.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.