Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.
I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.
My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.
I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.
I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.
Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'
I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.
I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.
Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.
It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.
My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.
I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help
Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.
I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.
Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.
Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.