A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

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