Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

John Irving

I always got in trouble in school for writing stories.

Chris Robinson

[And as for the] catastrophe ... The only good thing for me, I think, is that I have a new play that was already finished before this Broadway production happened. It goes into production in June. And that's good because I haven't been able to write anything while this was going on.

Tony Kushner

She came up for a week and we jammed. I think we wrote like six songs for the record that week. When it actually came time to record, she flew in for a week. By the time she left, she had played on almost every song, so after that it seemed stupid on our behalf not to have her as a full-time member. It's always healthy to add something. Forget the fact that the band is called Boys Night Out.

Jeff Davis

Nobody was doing veins at the time I started and there wasn't much written about it. All you did was strip a vein out, big scars, painful. I figured there must be something better to do.

Dr. Ron Bush

I do not know Harriet Miers. I do know President Bush and his commitment to a federal judiciary that lives within its constitutional assignment and interprets the law and doesn't write it from the bench, ... If the president trusts Harriet Miers to fulfill his campaign promises to the American people, then I trust Harriet Miers until I am given compelling evidence to the contrary.

Richard Land

The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.

Paul Vixie

Consumers would be shocked to learn that the amount of many short-term payday loans may be as high as 500-percent APR or even greater in many cases. Undoubtedly, some consumers would choose to forego the loan in the face of such written disclosures. However, even when disclosures are made, they are frequently inaccurate, failing to take into account various fees and charges.

Brian Caldwell

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.

William G. Golding

Engrossing, vividly written in the style of the best thrillers...It should become the standard work on the region.

Anthony Sampson

Randy and I decided to get it started, so we wrote the check.

Derrick Jackson

Time really has gone by fast. I don't know if your path is pre-written or what, but it's crazy how one thing just leads to another.

Torrie Wilson

That's what I'm way more into. That's what I try to put into the music almost every time. Like, a lot of the riffs that I write, I don't really even like playing them unless they're like bendy, Southern riffs.

Ben Gun

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knowswhat they are.

William Somerset Maugham

I think most people who write want to write, so that's what they do, ... I hope that this is a book my friends and others will enjoy reading.

Laura Evans

I was frustrated by not seeing the truth in print. And I believe that if you want to see it, you should write it.

Anthony Prior

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

Helen Hunt

Depending on how much you like these guys, you may want to take another trip with them. It's certainly fun to write about these characters.

Shane Black

If you can write it, I can be it.

Karen Black

[On Shred , the fraternal interplay is unmistakable.] I've been playing with my brother pretty much my whole life, ... I haven't been in a band without him. We can jam all night if we want to, just making shit up on the spot. So when it comes to writing songs, we're always pretty much locked in, we've been playing for so long together.

Dave Herrera

I majored in English in college, ... but whenever I had doubts when I was writing, I'd always call Nelson. He would always laugh and say he needed to be on my payroll.

Betty White

The people of Taiwan have once again written a new page in our history and taken a great step forward in democracy.

Chen Shui bian

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

Ayumi Hamasaki

The way they wrote was really intriguing.

Virginia Clayton

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Felix Frankfurter

We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.

John Agius

I write about everything in life. Whether it be things that plague us in the world today or what's on the front page of the newspaper or even love, it all comes down to what inspires you.

Scott Terry

I always make it a point to teach them to know what they are singing, its purpose, composers, and historical background on the period it was written.

Charlie Toomer

It's great to see each community - the people that live there and the authors who write about it. And the food.

Scott Crosby

For about two weeks I wanted be a director, then I got wise to that, ... I changed my emphasis from directing to writing, because when you're a director you need actors, equipment. Being a writer you need a pen and paper; there's no overhead.

Ross Lamanna

I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.

John Metcalf

When you set up a connection between computers using VI, you give the application the ability to write directly to the networking hardware without involving the operating system. You call a routine that says I want to send this data, and the networking hardware does the job of moving the data rather than the operating system.

Dave Wells

We've just scratched the surface in being able to communicate with him so that he can play our defense. Right now, we're relying mostly on the written word I'd personally like to take basic sign language lessons and continue to develop better ways to communicate with him.

David Elson

I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican authoritarian republic with a limited electorate -- just like the one the writers of our Constitution meant this country to be. When these white Christian patriots sat down to write the Declaration of Independence, there were no black citizens for them to worry about.

George Lincoln Rockwell

When I do dig down, I'm very [irritated] underneath, ... Why can't I just write a book about taking a walk and having a cup of coffee? It kind of annoys me about myself. If I could do it differently, I would. It's not some kind of principle. It's just in my nature somehow.

Richard Hell

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

Glenn Close

I love writing and creating these shows, and using art as a vehicle to educate and inspire, and this has been a wonderful opportunity to be able to do that.

Lisa Matsumoto

The interesting aspect of this publication is that it was produced and written by undergraduate students.

Andrea Gibson

His writing is impeccable and his story sense is acute.

David Neal

There are people in our community writing poetry. This brings it down home. Your friend next door could be writing poetry.

Amanda Cunningham

The hard thing about TV is that you've go to write really fast and you have to make a small orchestra sound big. The great thing about TV is that the restrictions separate the boys from the men.

Brandon Davis

This didn't mean that you wrote fawningly to please the publisher.

Victor Navasky

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Numerous tickets will be written in the coming weeks and months because he'll be looking at that specifically.

Jeff Buell

This is one more surprise for people in this area; we not only had a Nobel Prize winner, but a Pulitzer Prize winner, and he even wrote a poem that mentioned New York Avenue, in Union City. I hope that as a result of these articles, the city residents will become interested in learning about all the people and things and places that we can call 'our own' and should respect and honor.

Kathie Pontus

The AP couldn't agree to either of these restrictions. Her skating is news and the embargo amounted to a news blackout. As for when a column is written, we believe that's for us to decide.

Terry Taylor

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Tom Stoppard

It's stupid to spend $100,000 and a year's worth of time writing a specific plan that is going to get thrown in a trash can if the district determines it's going to build a high school.

Doug Epperhart

Every time I told them a true bit, it got a bigger reaction than any of the jokes I had written.

Dave Gorman

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

John Wesley

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. [Attributed].

Louis B. Mayer

If you write a 'good news' story from Iraq you are immediately identified as an apologist for the administration ... and if you write something critical then you're in the other camp.

Roger Cohen

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

It's really time to put some forethought into what we want the town to look like in 30 years. It's really time to look at our entire comprehensive plan and rewrite it.

Michelle O'hare

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it – three minutes; to collect the data in it – all my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

We're asking the readers to look at the larger viewpoint of student writing.

Karla Sanders

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

Ricardo Montalban

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Kahlil Gibran

I don't give a toss about writing really. It's a bit ironic that the things I'm really into are music and football, and I have never really been good at either.

Irvine Welsh

[Mr. Dudley subsequently made revisions, and some critics returned last month. Matt Wolf wrote in Variety that the projection] seems, thank heavens, to have simmered down. ... What's required, surely, is an authentically Victorian atmosphere, not something that looks like an out-of-focus video game.

Charles Spencer

We were able to take advantage of their expertise and experience in other states over the years. They helped us write better regulations. They were very concerned about their image.

Thom Berry

It's almost as if he's challenging you and himself to go further with the stuff that may be the most painful to write. The relationship between Irwin and [student] Dakin was there, but it is written with much greater daring.

Nicholas Hytner

For a period we'll be educating boaters. The intent is not necessarily writing tickets from the start. Hopefully peer pressure and word of mouth will make it work.

Dorn Whitmore

You couldn't have written the script.

Freddie Shepherd

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

Bo Diddley

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making, ... Id been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Lisa Loeb

A written agreement will guarantee that the prosecutor will ask the court to give credit, give a discount, reduce the sentence because of the cooperation. For the first time that will be enforceable in this sense: that if the person promises to cooperate and the court sentences on that basis and they don't cooperate, you can go back to court and get the sentence reviewed.

Lord Goldsmith

It's important to think through the issues, discuss them with a loved one and then get them in writing.

Paul Willumstad

I went through a war and I was a combat infantry officer, so I said, 'I'm going to write the great American war novel.' That got me to the typewriter. I didn't get the novel published, but it got me into the process.

Nelson Demille

The music we wrote to accompany the film is very moody and atmospheric, and we tried to bring out the sadness from both the victims' and the killer's perspective. We've always been interested in how music enhances the cinematic experience.

Tim Kelley

I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.

Alex Chilton

Writing is one of the ambitions I have.

Adrian Rogers

We are very fortunate to have (David) for our event as he leaves for a European tour soon after. 'You Just Have to Laugh' is just one of the many books he has written. He presents a hilarious view of getting through life.

Constance Bernstein

At halftime, I just wrote one word on the board, and that was pride. This is our home, and these guys are making us look silly. We needed to play with pride, and the guys came out and played a lot better.

Tom Ramon

Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very, very well written, ... I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Armand Assante

We're trying to give a solid foundation in writing and in scientific method and in math (so that students can) go to the next level.

Roben

The way the consent decree is currently written, thousands of black farmers will not be able to receive their fair due compensation for the simple fact the they don't have the information.

John Boyd

Look, it was awesome, ... Winning a championship in Boston was awesome, but I needed to turn the page. I'm here now. I don't want to rewrite that chapter, I want to write a new chapter, winning a championship on this side.

Alan Embree

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

Charlie Kaufman

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert Francis Kennedy

I've always written music the way I felt it. I write for the public because I feel like the public, the way they would write if they could.

Harry Warren

People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise.

Michael Klim

She is responsible for contacting donors, writing reports to them, fund-raising, proposal-writing and editing English documents.

Ghada Snunu

It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This film was actually an excuse for Terry to create an entire world. He does this so well with wide-angle lenses. Terry's frames are so densely packed with information that you can't take it all in the first time.

Matt Damon

After I returned to school, we received a large manila envelope filled with letters written back to several of our students. I hope it is the beginning of an ongoing pen-pal relationship.

Jan Jensen

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

William E. Simon

The Romeo-and-Juliet type of film writing is not so successful in TV because it is such a small medium You might record in the best studio in the world-but it still has to come out of that little three-inch speaker.

Henry Mancini

We're not about fame and fortune; if it comes, it comes. We care very much about the music we write and it's important that people hear how we feel about these things.

Scott Terry

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Brown

I went through a pretty intense experience. I met a lot of darkness inside and met it head on. I came out with a decision to live that was very compelling. And I wanted to write about that.

Ned Vizzini

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Catherine Ii

I've been a victim of just about every kind of circumstance there is, ... I could write a book on how to get cut in the NFL. It's never necessarily been because I haven't performed.

Joe Nedney

After this particular count, I said it looks like we have a hung jury. So I actually considered writing a note to the judge to say this, we're at a deadlock.

Steve Struss

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

Kathy Mattea

When it comes to writing this kind of a book you have to cut yourself a little slack.

Kenny Salwey

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."

Art Buchwald

As a writer, I was writing for the Jane Wyman Theater, that was an anthology, and The Dick Powell Show was an anthology, and then the Danny Thomas Hour, and then Playhouse 90.

Aaron Spelling

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes.

Cole Porter

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

Anita Brookner

I do feel heartsick that the inequalities, if anything, are worse today than they were when I wrote 'Savage Inequalities,' and that segregation is now back at the point where it was when I published my first book.

Jonathan Kozol

Fans have been writing in asking why the show hasn't made a return. Bosses felt it was the right time.

Jimmy Carr

Everything before then was written off as savagery or barbarism. Any story that involved heroism was about white people.

Nic Buchanan

We wanted a magazine regarded with taste, worldliness, authority, great photography and great writing. To take a magazine from scratch and build that reputation would take years, but we could already have it if we built on Vogue.

Jay Fielden

I started out wanting to write songs with rhythm, rhyme and a nice texture, but it has become a lifetime body of work for me. I take a high-energy approach to playing music and telling energetic stories.

Mike Cross

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

Richard Ford

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

Kelsey Primiano

I have no long term plans. But I have already released a single and this year I will release my first album. My record company hired producers to write songs for me this time, but in future I hope to write my own songs.

Li Yuchun

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

Roddy Doyle

You have 20 years to write your first record and only six months to do the next one. So people often just completely fold under the pressure. I'm much more proud of our second record than our first, so I'm happy to hear that people are responding to it well. We sort of cheated in that there were almost three years in between both records.

Damian Kulash

No, no, I will write no autobiography. I do not believe that someone can write a perfectly honest autobiography.

Christa Wolf

Writing this record was the first time we felt really at home in a long time.

Dustin Kensrue

All the sparkly shirts and the stage trappings - that's just the performer, the public me, ... Songwriting is the hardest and most personal thing I do. When I'm writing, I'll go into the studio at six in the morning and stay until after dark, including weekends.

Neil Diamond

Nowhere in Hubbard's record is there any mention of him going into combat, ... Hubbard lied about the medals he received and about his career in World War Two. The 'Stolen Valor Act of 2005' is written and proposed to redress exactly the kinds of claims Hubbard made.

David Rice

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Harold S. Geneen

Most of the stuff I write is based on life experiences.

Bryan Martin

They want people writing tickets. I think that's pretty clear.

Mike Walsh

I have stated many times that I feel at home here, since I wish so deeply to live among my own people, who speak, breathe and dream in the language I write. I consider India as my own country.

Taslima Nasreen

I love doing it. Maybe someone who hears what I wrote will pay me to publish it.

Carol West

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

Beck Hansen

Both the Democratic and the Republican parties stand for equality of all people. We have no room in our party, it seems to me, for someone who writes the things that he's written in the last year.

Warren Rudman

Only the old people write me in longhand!

Brett Somers

We're at the point now of writing our own music. But, musically, we challenge anyone to step up to the plate with us.

Randy Monroe

I actually think it's harder to write a song than poetry. I try to pick words that sound lyrical and good and have the right amount of meaning, but if I read them written down, it looks awful. That's why a lot of times, the lyrics come afterward for me, and those somehow have more meaning than having a lyrical idea first and putting music to it.

David Hazel

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

John Ashbery

He's reading Hemingway and writing his life story. It's so gratifying to see him reading Hemingway.

Patricia Stevens

Most of my bread and butter money came from writing.

Jeff Hanna

A driver's physician does have the authority to write us and say, This person should no longer be driving,' and they'll tell us why, and we'll issue a suspension then and there.

Jackie Branche

At the very least, we'll write another book about it.

Teri Erickson

We've gotten to write and perform some original pieces like 'Ports of Call' and 'Murder at The Met'. We've done a 'Messiah' sing-a-long, where hundreds of people from around the state gathered at church to be a part of a memorable event.

Paul Lee

I've written a lot of negative stuff against her. I came to bury her and I've ended up praising her.

Michael Musto

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

Richard Bentley

Writing them a blank check and not being able to have oversight does not achieve that.

Scott Garrett

Finally, he calls me up, and he says, 'All right. This is it. You're going to have to write this. It's going to have to be explicit. This is a deal-breaker.' So I wrote it.

Neil Mcmahon

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

James Marsden

Because of the first worm, too many people were suddenly starting to think about and investigate the possibility of writing a Mac OS X worm. Publishing the exploit as fast as possible is the best for all Apple users. I think at the end of the week, every Apple user will know about it.

Michael Lehn

I started off doing rock 'n' roll, and then I went back, a couple of albums ago, into writing rock 'n' roll songs, and now this is a show with a straight-up rock 'n' roll band.

John Cale

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

John Shirley

When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.

Robert Walzel

I am writing to advise you that under the circumstances involved, it is the City's decision that the permit remains a valid permit. Accordingly, the City will not require that the sign be removed from its present location.

John Hanlon

The Sickness was raw. We'd had our whole lives to write it.

Mike Wengren

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Richard Rorty

We're all - especially myself - influenced by old-school music, but we all listen to some new-school stuff as well. Those influences of ours, we just soak them up, and they just come out in our writing and our performances.

Alan Evans

Many of the laws that pornography runs afoul of need to be tested, as they are often written broadly enough that they can affect other expressions that we do care about.

Peter Scheer

I didn't know who Walt was at the time, but it didn't take me long to find out. He had written hits for about everybody. This was my first time in a studio and I wasn't ready for it. I wasn't mature enough. There's a big difference in studio singing and singing live.

Chad Bradford

He was ultimately not concerned with theory. He sought to understand the impact of criminal law in real courtrooms and in the real world, his analytical approach was rigorous and also balanced without rhetorical or ideological excess, and his writing style was unusual in the legal academy. His law review articles are now classics in their fields.

Kate Stith

I've written more songs than ever before on this record. (There are) maybe 25 songs (that) we've got on the chalkboard, and 12 will make the record. It's funk, rock, soul, and pop all mixed together in a big soup. I'm probably going to have some real strings and maybe some more orchestrated songs. This one, and I'll quote Chad here, is going to be the most varied record I've ever done.

Glenn Hughes

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Wallace Stegner

None of the airlines involved required a contract or any written guarantee of payment before sending their planes and volunteer crews. One official said if Gore promised to pay, that was good enough for them.

Dr. Greg Simon

He nailed it when he said a good song makes people think, move and feel. That's what we try to do with every song we write and record. If people are doing all three of those things, then we did our job. Making music is not a one-dimensional thing.

Claudio Sanchez

The biggest mistake regarding record-keeping is not writing things down or not remembering where you wrote it down.

David Mellem

That's the main thing -- like you're not loyal, you're not a Buckeye, ... But I can't control what other people think, write or say about me. So I don't really care about it too much.

Maurice Clarett

I realized these people had been writing what they wanted to write their whole lives.

Roger Rosenblatt

If you're really nice to the waiter, ... he'll tell you where they sat when they wrote the song.

Laura Kidder

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

Henry Martyn

I am compelled to write because I have an artist's personality, it is a psychologically-determined thing, one best not explored perhaps. But I write because I must. And frequently I do not know what I am writing, and can talk of what I've written only a long time afterwards.

Howard Barker

This was the last song I wrote with Wally shortly before he died. He loved humor, particularly bawdy humor, and this song certainly has that.

Sherman Yellen

[Conquering the small screen and having a heavyweight champ is a hard act to follow but Simon is now setting his sights on the silver screen.] I want to direct films. I have to sit down and write one first, ... We save the animals by rescuing them before they get put to sleep and train them for the handicapped. We can save the dog and enrich a human's life too at the same time.

Sam Simon

I e-mailed Nick [McCarthy] asking how this could have happened and he wrote back: 'Relentless hooks!'.

Chris Geddes

[Most recently he wrote the song] We've Got Nothing but Love to Prove, ... Fireflies.

Faith Hill

We've had three or four scripts written, and we've never quite nailed what we wanted to do. We've got a new writer. A very famous writer, a Pulitzer Prize winner indeed. I can't name him because I don't know the situation at the moment. You can't tell someone's life story in two hours on film.

Roger Daltrey

I'd say Toronto is the biggest disappointment only because they didn't prepare for this two years ago. I think they were among those teams that thought the new system would include a luxury tax, like baseball has, and they'd pay that and spend what they wanted. They never thought they'd be in a position where they couldn't just write checks and make everything OK.

Gary Green

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Raymond Chandler

All the students were in charge of interviewing, writing, brainstorming ideas and designing.

Andrea Gibson

You have to accept the possibility that a major portion of the people will be left behind. You may have to write some of them off in far larger numbers than people realize.

Roger Cressey

If I have a constituent who takes the time to sit down and write a letter, they deserve a response. If I don't know the answer, I ask the city manager.

Laketa Cole

The commission has written to the Premier League indicating the reservations we still have about their proposals, asking them to react as soon as possible so we get this sorted out.

Antonia Mochan

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

Paul Muni

This is a self-imposed imprisonment because she shuts herself away to write to try to make sense out of her life.

Doug Caskey

You don't want to be too worried about the marketplace or what's commercial, or what's on TV or in the movies right now. What started us was writing this very personal romantic comedy script that never got made, but was about very personal things to us and showcased our voice as writers. People responded to that and started to open doors because of that.

Adam Horowitz

It's like a bunch of hard-core kids who decided they were going to write pop music.

Pete Wentz

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.'

Rufus Wainwright

Michael Thomas's goal for Arsenal against Liverpool [to snatch the title in the dying seconds of the 1988-89 season], or Liverpool's Champions' League win this year, are much more dramatic than anything you could ever write.

Stan Hey

I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothing to say.

Enrique Tessieri

Citations are important and citations have their place, especially when people don't want to clean up their property. The officers have no problem writing citations but ... you have to be careful not to take a snapshot two-second look at a property.

Lesli Andrews

My co-writer and myself were talking about the whole thing, and he just stood up and said, 'It makes you want to just look these people in the eye and say, 'Have you forgotten?' ... I got chills all over my body because I knew that was the title of the song that we were going to write that day.

Darryl Worley

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

Adrienne Kennedy

Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

Melissa Manchester

It was written by a very competent and very sophisticated computer scientist or group of computer scientists who really know what they're doing.

Peter Watkins

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.

Ray Charles

Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so successful. It's music that sticks in your head.

Chuck Mangione

I wrote what I wanted to read.

Angela Green

It was a breakthrough, and the Internet played a critical role. If something is written well enough, they can't stop it from spreading. People will find a way to read it.

Xu Zhiyong

We had to write a proposal to enter the competition.

Dan Haworth

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

Irving Layton

The goal is to write contracts and generate sales. It's a unique approach that we will continue to do in the future.

Richard Greco

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

Anne Perry

That's something we wanted to address because you guys said the way to beat us was to run the football. We were able to show people that was not true this year. You guys deserve to write that part of it now.

Anthony Mcfarland

The first thing is to take a very careful inventory of your goods and write that down. And then, using that, get several bids. Make sure you get a good price, and make sure the inventory is attached to the bids.

Robert Krughoff

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

Michael Schudson

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

Judy Collins

I have a computer background and I started writing software several years ago to help address the needs of having multiple offices and what we were going to do with our charts, ... the records that we had in any one office would have to be delivered back and forth in anticipation of people's visits. Not only that, if someone showed up impromptu, we wouldn't have their records.

Richard Goldstein

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I had a huge crush on my friend's older sister and I wasn't able to tell her. Poetry was a way of writing how I felt with out saying it.

Ronald Davis

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

Gail Hamilton

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

Roy Blount Jr.

I have very serious concerns that the settlement as it's written could effectively make it impossible for the FDA to regulate tobacco.

David Kessler

I was working with one woman who enrolled in a plan because it had all the medications she needed. Now it doesn't. Her doctor needed to be contacted to write an exception which would allow her to get the coverage. Doctors' offices are now being overwhelmed with these requests.

Mary Simpson

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

Bernard Cornwell

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.

Ellen Goodman

Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.

Chris Van Allsburg