Write Quotes
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My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.
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I wanted to write a very anathematic pop song. If you had to choose one great thing in your life, what would it be?
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Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it.
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I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.
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We write to make sense of it all.
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I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.
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And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
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I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
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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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I wish we had been more organized and determined with respect to carving out the time that we needed to write.
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I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.
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If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.
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A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
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A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad songs than it is to write happy ones, so that's maybe why. I just wanted to be a bit positive about things rather than always being negative.
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.
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We write a batch of songs and they come out as they come out. It’s not preconceived. It just turns out there are loads of epics on this album. We have high standards for what we want to achieve, but it’s not really well thought-out at all. We allow ourselves a six week writing period to give us enough pressure to bring it out.
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I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot of the times people will try too hard to write everything themselves and therefor miss out on great songs that way.
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I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.
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Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.
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One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.
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I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.
