Write Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.
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Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.
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I love to stay at home and write.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
