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Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.
With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.
When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else
Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.
O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.
I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.
Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.
Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I can do a lot in a day.
By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.
There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.
I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.
What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.
I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.
If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.
I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.
Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.
The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.