Write Quotes

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

Too much of what I write takes me back to you.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

None of this was written to hurt anybody’s feelings.

I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

I done paid Gunna to write my songs. I never put the songs out but like when I first started rapping I used to pay him like $100 like ‘I’ma give you a $100 write something for me so I can try to learn to go in and record it.’

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

Don’t write about me I was never meant to be your poem.

I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.