Write Quotes
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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Love is the feeling of everything I write and it's like my driving force for everything.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'
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Write whatever you like!
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I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I am thankful that God gave me the ability to write!
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You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'
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I write my music.
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I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
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I write very slowly.
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I don't write about my life in my column.
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To write, you have to want something to survive you.
