Write Quotes
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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 must never write when I do not want to write.
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Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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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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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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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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Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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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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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
