Write Quotes

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

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.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month and a half to write them, and it took me a while to realize that I was in charge.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.