Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.
As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.
So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.
The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.
I was writing 'He Who Shapes' when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.
I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.
Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?