Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.
I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.
I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.
My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.
I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it.
But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.
I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.
Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.
You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.
It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.