Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not
When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.
People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.
I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'
I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.