Write Quotes

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.

A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

I write in American slang.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.