Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.
When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.
The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.
Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.
People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.
Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.
It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.
The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book
Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.