Write Quotes
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Any story that I write or tell is rooted in personal truths in some fashion or another, so they’re all very personal to me.
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I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.
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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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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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It was a good chance for me to write lyrics that I was going to sing, I’ve always written lyrics for other people to sing. I thought. I’m going to write an album here, but i’m not going to write stuff that other people are gonna sing, because that would be pointless.
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
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I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this.
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
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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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No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
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All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.
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It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
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I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
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I can write about pain without experiencing pain, which I am thankful for.
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
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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 found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
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Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
