Write Quotes

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

I write a thousand words a day.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

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.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.