Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.
I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.
The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).
I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.
Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.
Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate
Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.
I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily.
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.
Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.
Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.
I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.
[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.
I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.
When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.
I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.
I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.
If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.