Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it
I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.
I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.
I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.
I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.
When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.
I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.
I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.
If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write
Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.
With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.
Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.
I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.