Write Quotes
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
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I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
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I write novels and other things.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
