Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].
I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.
My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.
If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
When my second husband shouted, 'Me or your writing!' I replied, 'My writing.' We separated.
If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective.
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.
I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.
I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics
Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.