Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
Writing down goals makes you think of what is achievable. It really makes you reflect on what you are today.
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know
Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"
I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.
I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.
I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.
Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.
When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.
Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.
Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.