Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.
Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.
I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.
Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?
I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.
Get your passion on the paper. Detach from the outcome. Forget about whether it's going to get published.