Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.
You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.
I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.
And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.
When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all.
I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do. So, it's usually not too, too hard.
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.
I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while.
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and be connected.
I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing.
Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.
I think I'm just trying to be myself and write songs that are honest. That's what I hear in artist's that I like.
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.