Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.
When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"
I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?
the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.
But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.
Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.
Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.
As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words If a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.
So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.
Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!