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A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living cook books and detective stories.
The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.
I like to get produced. I'm not saying I write to be commercial, I mean "Hazelwood High" they light a girl on fire, so it wasn't the most.
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.
Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.
I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.
I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.
Today we speak, but first we spoke; faucets leak, but never loke. Today we write, but first we wrote; we bite our tongues, but never bote.
It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.
My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year of the Pig on my checks.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
I do think it is important to look at the writing as a job though and to commit to it like you'd have to commit to a regular nine-to-five.
I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.
It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.
If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.
Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others.
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.
If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.