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While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.
Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.
If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.
I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.
I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.
I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
I sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing them, perform the way I wanted to perform.
I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.
Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.
I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.
... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.
I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible.
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.
If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.
I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night.
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.