Write Quotes

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

I just write mechanical things.