Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
And my girl actin like a brat So when she call, I don't answer - I just write her back
I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.
Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.
There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.
I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.
I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.
the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.
Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately.
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects
I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend.
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.