Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.
A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.
There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.
Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you.
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.
Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.
If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.