We write with the souls of thousands of lives saved, the lives of millions of jobs created, liberating multitudes of drivers from the shackles of servitude to iniquitous taxi cartels of corrupt cabals that choked cities with their pollution of air and morals.
Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.
When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.
My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
I write my columns pretty carefully.
I used to want to write commercials as a kid.
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.
The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.