Write Quotes

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.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.