Write Quotes
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I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
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I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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If you write to a title, the song sort of writes itself. I don’t find making music to be too problematic. It’s all the third party nonsense surrounding music that I don’t deal with so well.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.
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I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.
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I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
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As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
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I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.
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A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!
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I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find myself keeping track of ideas that come along, as probably most writers do, and whatever seems most interesting to me when I flip through my notes before I begin a new story is usually what I will try to write about next.
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I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.
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You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
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A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.
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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.
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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
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Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
