Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.
I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.
Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.
The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.
A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.
A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.
When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper."
Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.
Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.
He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.
Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.
I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.
I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.
Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.