Writing Quotes

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, ’cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else’s songs.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Writers block grappled our souls, we fought back with our words.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

I started painting the touch of your voice, and ended up writing a love song.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

I wasn’t prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.