Write Quotes
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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'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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Don't write slogans, write truths.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.
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I love the soul sound that the Bee Gees are into now, and that's the kind of feel that I want to have on all my records. Unfortunately, though, I don't write in that vein. I'm better at writing country-rock music because, while I was recording in Miami, the Eagles were working in the studio next door and I was heavily influenced by their soun.
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Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
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It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!
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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?'
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Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
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I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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.
