Write Quotes

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Write a page a day. It will add up.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.