Write Quotes

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

I tend to write in the mornings.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.