Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.
I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.
Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.
I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.
Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One
I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.
Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife.
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath!
The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.
I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.
Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.
Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.
More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.
Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.