Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.
Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.
In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.
It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.
I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.
You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.
After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.
Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.