Write Quotes
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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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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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
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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.'
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I’ve seen these so-called journalists flat-out lie. I say that because incompetence doesn’t begin to explain the inaccurate stories they have written.
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.
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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.
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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 write slowly.
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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.
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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'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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I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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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.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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I only write in blue ink.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
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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?'
