Write Quotes

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.