Write Quotes

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

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

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.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

You must write to the people's expertise.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

I write music every day.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.