Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.
Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know
I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.
I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.
I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.
I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.