Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.
The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.
We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.
I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Experience belongs to the actor, but the story belongs to the teller. We write so we will never forget.
For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.
If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.
It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.
Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.
I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.
To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.
Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.
The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.
Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.
Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts.
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
[While writing], I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.