Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it.
Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.
I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.
I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame.
I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.
If I did get the opportunity to write something cool that people would like, I would jump at the opportunity to make it.
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.
I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.
There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.
I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.
On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.
An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.
I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.
It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.
At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit.
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.
I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.