Write Quotes

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

I didn't write songs for a very long time.

I love to write. It's my first love.

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

People do write books.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

I write a thousand words a day.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.