Write Quotes
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Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.
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It came naturally to find out what I did best, which was to write songs and sing well.
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I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.
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...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
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I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar.
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We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.
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I do not write for an audience.
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I decided I'm gonna sing what I want, wear what I want, write what I want, and hope that if it comes from my heart then people will see that it's real and gravitate toward it.
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Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
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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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Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
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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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We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong way... people can adventure a little.
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Paul McCartney and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.
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I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
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When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
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I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
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Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
