Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.
See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.
I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.
As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.
I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.
When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.