Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.
I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.
When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.
If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’
I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.
For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.
"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.
I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.
Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.
With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself
I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.
You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.
Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.