Write Quotes
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It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
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Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life.
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Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
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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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Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
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I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
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I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, it's like they're trying to pretend it's not there.
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I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
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Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
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The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
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I start with the joke line and write backward.
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In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.
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The worst thing in the world is to write something and be like that’s crap.
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Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.
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I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.
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It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.
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Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.
