Write Quotes
-
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
-
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
-
Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.
-
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
-
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!
-
I only write in blue ink.
-
They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
-
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
-
I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
-
National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.
-
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
-
I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
-
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
-
I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
-
I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
-
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
-
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
-
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
-
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
-
Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
-
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
-
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
-
I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
-
I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
