Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built
The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.
I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.
I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
Besides acting which is my first love, I am also interested in behind the scenes.. Directing , writing and producing.
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.