Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.
I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television.
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.
You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.
If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.
Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.
I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.
My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them.
There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.
What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.
My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.
It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.
I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to say in life.
For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.
Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.
President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off.
I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.