Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.
Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.
I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.
[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."
Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.
It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.
Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.
Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.
The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.
It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.
This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.