Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
I’m not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don’t seek a wide swath of feedback.
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
Everything that doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story.
My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.
I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution
I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.
Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
I treat both acting and writing as a creation - writing is just another element or aspect of it.
I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.
You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.
I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.
Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.