Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.
The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing.
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.
It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me
If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.
Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.
I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.
No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.
When you ask me to sign your NDA, you're basically saying, in writing, that you don't trust me.
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size.
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.
I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.