Write Quotes
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I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.
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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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Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.
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I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.
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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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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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I went on to write my graduate thesis on the "Montgomery Story" comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."
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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.
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I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.
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The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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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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I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
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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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I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!
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I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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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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Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
