Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
I love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.
I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.
It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.
No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.
Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.
I love 30 Rock. It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.
I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.