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I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.
For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting for inspiration.
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.
I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”
Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.
He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.
Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.
I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.
I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!
Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.