Write Quotes
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
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I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.
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I wanted to write about the things that I love.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
