Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.
All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
I got scared away from the whole writing and producing thing, because of how really, truly difficult this was.
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.
Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.
I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.