Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time.
however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon
I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.
I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!
That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.
For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.
I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
When I write I consider it a rhyme. In the studio I consider it laying down vocals. Onstage, I'm entertaining; I don't even think about it.
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.
I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.
Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.
I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.
If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.
What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.
You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.