Write Quotes

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

I write novels and other things.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I want to write a best-selling book.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.