Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.
If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.
So, it's a continual process of trial and error and then I find things and I throw it out and start again, but I keep writing it over again.
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story.
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.
Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.
I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.
If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.
I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?