Write Quotes

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.