Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.
I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.
For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.
I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.
I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.
I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.
This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.
I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.
If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
The thing about Donald [Trump] is the jokes write themselves. I don't even think of it to be trolling. What he says is the joke.
I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare?
If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."
For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.
I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.
If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.
I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.
On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.
Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.
As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.
If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).
I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.