Write Quotes

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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 wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.