Write Quotes
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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I write novels and other things.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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To write, you need to find what you love.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
