Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.
I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.
Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?
Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
What's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next.
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.
I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.
James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.
I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.
What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.
I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.
Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again.
Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.