Write Quotes

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

I write about true-life type things.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

I write novels and other things.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.