Write Quotes

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

My mother taught me how to write.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.