I Write Quotes
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.
You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.
I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.
Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.
She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.
To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
