Write Quotes

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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.