About Writing Quotes

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

Sometimes you just want to write a party song.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.

Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

As for me, I rarely write a song. But when I do write a song, like "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects," which came to me at three a.m. one morning, on a whim - I get a percentage.

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

I don't want my writing to be recognized.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.

I love to write poetry.

The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for me to see if I liked them. I wasn't encouraged to write.

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

I write about what I know.

It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.