Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.
I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.
Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about.
Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.
I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.
I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.
Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.
I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual
I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.
My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well
Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.
A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.
I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.
I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.