Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.
I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.
Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time.
Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.
Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.
I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.
It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.
Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.
There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.
I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.
All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.
'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.