Write Quotes

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and record it.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

Because to write, one must truly suffer.

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it.

I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

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.