Write Quotes
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When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
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It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.
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I had done a couple TV pilots, and a friend of mine wanted to leave comics and come work in Hollywood, and I said, "Well, you've got to understand that when you sell a TV pilot, imagine if you turned in the best issue of Batman ever, and DC was like, 'Well we love this, but we can't publish it because we have to publish this other thing by this other person." The odds are really long on getting anything made, so if you come from comics and you're still making a living in comics, that really helps because you're not desperate for someone's permission to write for a living.
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I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.
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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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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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You have to write badly in order to write well.
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I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.
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Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
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If Orwell had a chance to write 1984 from the vantage point of 1984 instead of 1948, perhaps he would have seen the class of hackers instead of the proles as a threat to Big Brother's rule.
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The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
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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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You know what, I just write what I feel.
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If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.
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I love the Juno – I haven’t mastered the JP-80 yet but the Juno is so easy to use. I love the arpeggiator. I love the sounds, they’re all the sounds I like to write with.
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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
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I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.
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At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
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I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'
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I write to discover what I know.
