Write Quotes

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

I write in the studio.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

It's very hard to write humor.

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.