I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to..

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing..

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe..

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it u….

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sor….

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes..

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself..

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not re….

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk..

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the bette….

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing..

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, i….

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the….

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that ch….

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purpose….

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a bala….

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out o….

. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem as certain. I figured it was time to act.….

I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the ch….

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and….

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books..