Write Quotes
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I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.
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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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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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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 only write in blue ink.
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
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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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It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.
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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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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 began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
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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 can read and arrange, but I can't write.
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That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
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I could probably have an idea one day and then go into the studio and really wanna write about just that idea that I have in mind. Or it can vary with just a simple beat and I just do a bunch of melodies on the track that inspire me.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
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I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
