Write Quotes
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I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.
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Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.
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You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
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I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
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I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.
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I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?
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In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.
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The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.
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We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.
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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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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.
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I tend to write in the mornings.
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Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
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My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
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Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
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It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
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There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
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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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Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.
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I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.
