Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives.
I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.
I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.
A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.
I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.