Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.
My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.
In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.
I write down inspirational things on cards that I keep in my bag and look at during the round.
You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.
There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.
Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.