Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.
I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.
Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.
There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.
Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.
It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.
When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it.
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.
I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.
With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.
We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.
I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.
I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!"
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.” --Leif
Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.