Write Quotes

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.

And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

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.