Write Quotes
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I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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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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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.
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My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
