Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you can't write your song in half an hour, you're in trouble - which is always true.
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.
The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.
I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].
What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.
With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other.
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.
I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.
I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."
Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.
I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.
If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.