Write Quotes

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

You must write to the people's expertise.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

I write music every day.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

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

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.