Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.
It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.
2010 has been awesome. I got to write on the David Hasselhoff Roast this summer, and that's always been a dream.
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.
I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
Kristofferson was writing what was really in his heart and saying it in ways we hadn't heard up till that point.
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.
Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.
I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people.
It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.
Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.
My personal view is that until there is a disincentive to write lies and abusive comments it's going to continue.
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all.
Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.
I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.