Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's the main thing.
There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.
When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!
What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.
It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.
After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don't start writing no letters. I'm just kidding. But am I lying?
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.
I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.
Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.
I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.
I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys.
I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son, family, or I, etc. look up to you."
I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.
I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.
They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.
I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.