Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.
The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.
My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.
[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.
To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.
Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.
I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.
I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.
It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.