Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.
People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.
My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out.
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.
It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
Take these words home and think it through; Or the next rhyme I write might be about you.
What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.
I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.
You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.
Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.