Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.
After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.
Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.
I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.
I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.
It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.
I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.
With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.