Write Quotes

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

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

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

I don't write about my life in my column.

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it.

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.