Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.
Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.
I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.
Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I resist indulging myself.
My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.
I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.
There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?
I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.
I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.
Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.
My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.
Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.