Write Quotes

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.