Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I think I actually did write about love because I kind of had a fear of it, like we all do, nobody wants to get hurt.
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.
I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.
I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.
Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.
Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.
It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.
I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.
I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.
Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.
Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
If you text 'I love you' and the person writes back an emoji - no matter what that emoji is, they don't love you back.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.
I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.
There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.