Write Quotes

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

If you can talk, you can write.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

I write what I'm interested in.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.