Write Quotes

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.

I write what I'm interested in.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

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 have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.