Write Quotes

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

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.

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.

I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'