Write Quotes

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

I can write anywhere.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

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

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.