Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.
When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.
I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.
The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice
Ill never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.
I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie
Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.
I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.
Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.
The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.
I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.