Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.
Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.