You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.
I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.
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.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience shapes what you write and what you don't write.
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to understand what you're singing about and be able to truly sing it. Because if you're singing a song that someone's written for you and you really can't relate to it, it's hard to sing that song.
Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off.
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective. '
I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.
Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
I really tend to write in retrospect.
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
I write between 5. 30am and 9. 00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.