Write Quotes

Write as if you were dying.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.