It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound… it’s like musical landfill.
Televison is time bound. Whereas a movie has time. You can’t write a script for television and keep it for one year.
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can’t read it afterwards.
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness – and that can make me laugh.
Half the people think I write Obama’s speeches; the other half think I’m on ‘Entourage.’ So I’m at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I’ve written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
The one thing I’ve learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don’t get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they’re going to have to ride. That’s the hard work.
If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.
‘An Unquiet Mind’ wasn’t hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
One can’t write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don’t like poetry.
I have suffered most of the things I write about – or my friends have.
I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn’t exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
I don’t write for an auditorium full of people. I don’t write for the microphone; I write for the page.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
I don’t write polite letters. I don’t like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.
I’ve been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I’m privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.
A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don’t need recreation.
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many.
I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I’m pretty sure that I’ll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.
I don’t think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that’s how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, ‘Here’s the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write ‘Let It Be.’
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.
I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.
I don’t only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and… ants. I can understand ants.
Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
I still take a lot of pride in being able to write my own songs. My story’s coming from me.
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
I feel more comfortable each time I sit down to write, but I’m determined to get better and better.
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I’d learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.
When I’m driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
No matter what you write, you actually can’t help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
To write a diary every day is like returning to one’s own vomit.
Everyone thinks they’re going to write one book of poems or one novel.
I’ve always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don’t write about it.
Never think you can’t do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, ‘Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?’ Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can’t.
I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
I don’t have writer’s block, really. I do have times when I can’t get the lead, and that is the only part of the story which I have serious trouble with. I don’t write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone – the whole point of view.
Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
I think I’m always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women – don’t forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
There weren’t any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds, working with animals, jumping in the river, climbing trees.
If you can write DNA, you’re no longer limited to ‘what is’ but to what you could make.
People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, ‘You need to write a book because you’ve had a crazy life.’
In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
