Write Quotes

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

I wanted to write.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Simple is the only way I can write.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

The characters I write about are very internal.