Write Quotes

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.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

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.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

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.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!