Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.
Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.
I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.
The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.
I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes.
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?
I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.