When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone’s jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn’t.
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day… and rightly so.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn’t outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
I wrote my children’s book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God’s love.
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.
When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, ‘Oh, I can go with this.’ I didn’t do an outline. I didn’t do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
I’m not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I’m just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I’ve read it.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I’m so lucky that I got to be part of the family.
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
I didn’t write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.
I wrote ‘Buried Child’ in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
I don’t think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
We fought during ‘The Wall,’ which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and ‘Wish You Were Here.’ Actually, we never got along.
I’m a big fan of Woody Allen. I used to love the fact that he wrote his own screenplay and acted in the movie.
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.
If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.
A lot of women wrote to me. Some wrote me long letters on the meaning of the circle and about mythology and about motherhood and the significance or the symbolism of the mermaid and the frogs and the turtles.
Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome – a city, as a young Winston Churchill once wrote, where ‘anything might happen.’
This book was company for me – I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like ‘Outfit’ and ‘Decoration Day,’ those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don’t think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.
I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He’s the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
‘The Way of the Gun’ I wrote in five days.
Now, I’ll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn’t get anybody to touch it, to publish it – he couldn’t do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote ‘Search.’ There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
‘Nation’ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.
But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
When I was like 22 years old, I wrote this bible for a Sunfire series. So, Sunfire is actually one of the members of the first X-Men team, and he’s a Japanese mutant who got his powers from a young age and grew up in an environment raised by his uncle to hate America.
At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor’s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China’s most famous writers.
I think ‘Lost Boy’ is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don’t picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.
In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.
And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.
I write from my imagination, not from what I’ve read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
That first record, I wrote before I had a record deal.
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn’t know the poems would travel. I didn’t go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It’s my favorite city.
I’m a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Once I was condemned to three months’ absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we’re still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn’t a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
