Write Quotes

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

My favorite pastime is to write.

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.