Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.
I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.
For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
You can't have a dream come true if you don't have a dream. You can't write a book if you don't write.
If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!
You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.
When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live nahmean.
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.
An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.
If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.
I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.
If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.
I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.