Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.
My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.
I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.
I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a wonderful charge. I love depreciation.
It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.
I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.
As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.
The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.
The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.
Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.
Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.
My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.