Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.
If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.
What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.
I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.
Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.
How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.