Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.
You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.
The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
I don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.
Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.
If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.
You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.
I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.
If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.