Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.
For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.
I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.
There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.
Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.
I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.
All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.
There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.
Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.
Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.
I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.
When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!