Write Quotes

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

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

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

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

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

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

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

To write is a humiliation.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.

Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

You write about what you know.

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

You can't write if you don't read.