Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.
Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.
I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.
Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.
Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.
I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."
The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.
Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.
I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.
We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.
I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.