Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.
I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.
I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music.
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.
Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.
Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.
My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.
You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.
Please use anger for something positive like hurting people that deserve it or writing jokes.
I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.
Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.
When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.
By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.
Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.