Write Quotes
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.
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I write what I write.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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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'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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I don't really write all that well with others.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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When you write for someone else, you're being an actor, the feeling is the feeling of another.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.
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I write poems to find out why I write them.
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Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
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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.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.
