Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.
When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.
Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.
I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.
I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.
Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.
That's the essence of songcraft: making something everyone can understand yet it still sounds new.
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.
I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.
There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.
Like everyone else, I was born naked and screaming, waiting for my life to write itself on my skin.
If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.
Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.
You must become an expert on a product, service or anything you write about to really be effective.
I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.
A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.