I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.
I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
I knew that I had to write my memoirs.
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.
At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.
I write in the booth and memorize in rehearsals.
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.
I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it.
