Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.
It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right
Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.
I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.
If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.
Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting