Write Quotes

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

I mean, I don't write for kids.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

I write on all instruments.

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.