The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
Marty Feldman
PenSwordWriteEasierThan
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
Dennis Prager
PersonSayWillWriteSomethingWho
When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'
Jill Sobule
MusicThinkSaidWriteFirstSongs
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
Anne Rivers Siddons
MeWriteLittleVeryImaginable
I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.
Andy Grammer
SimpleSweetSongGenuineWrite
I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.
Todd Barry
SometimesWriteOutThingsUsed
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
Gary Oldman
YouPlayWriteSubtextReally
I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.
Tom Stoppard
LifeMoreWriteEconomyAlwaysLine
I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.
Judy Blume
Be TrueTrueWriteRememberedWanted
John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
Colm Toibin
MeWriteSameThingsOKTaught
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
Andrew Bird
BelieveWorthYouDownKindWrite
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
Syd Barrett
WriteTakeLinesLikeAroundThen
I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
TimeChampionTryingTalkWrite
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
Mika
MenFatRunWriteMexicoOff
I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.
Derek Walcott
TryingNeverWriteGreatestEnglish
When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.
Jill Scott
WordsSongFeelingEmotionWrite
I keep saying to everyone that one day I'll write a love song.
Anne-Marie
LoveDaySongSayingOne DayWrite
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.
Ang Lee
DisciplineManViewYouKindWrite
I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.
Tom Araya
WriteMusicallyJustI WriteYeah
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
G. Willow Wilson
JobWriteOutWantedComicsEver
I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.
Robert Crais
LoveBookYouWriteYourReaders
I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work.
Judy Greer
WorkMyselfWritingWriteStructure
I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.
Colson Whitehead
ThinkRaceWriteWhateverShadeAny
I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that I don't have to be doing everything all at once.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
HopeMeDoingImportantWantWrite
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