Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.
I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.
Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess.
You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly, is not difficult.
I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on my marriage.
The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.
You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.
I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.
I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.
Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. Its really fun to watch that.
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.
She's blonde with all the hits. Taylor Swift. She's hot. More than that, she's beyond talented. I have to write a song with her.
You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?
I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.
My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.
There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.