Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.
Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
If I heard there was a new show, and the creators were writing about how they met, I would be like, "Pass!"
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.
I’m going to trust this, I’m going to follow my path and my passion and I’m going to write from my heart...
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.
I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.
There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.