Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership.
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.
I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.
I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.
I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.
The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.
I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.
Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy.
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print
A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.
I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.
In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.
Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.
What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.
It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.
When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."
I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.