Write Quotes

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.