Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.
If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.
Leaving New York and friends is tough, and there are things about it I still really miss. But Montana is a great place to write.
I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.
What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to want to write like the classic private-eye writers.
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it.
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
I didn't want to write sketch comedy after 'Mr. Show.' I felt like, after 'Mr. Show', why would you want to go work at any of the other places that existed then?
I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.
Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.
I write music with an exclamation point!
I'm very easily influenced, and I'm also a quick study, so I think when I decided I wanted to write pop songs, I literally just listened to pop radio for six months to get a feel for it and understand it.
Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.
I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
