Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.
It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.
It's really fun to be writing and producing your own sketches. You almost have more control.
Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.
Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.
My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.
I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.
Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.
If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.