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I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.
He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.
Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.
My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.
When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am, but I come as close as I can.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I wanted to share so I learnt how to write and kept going. If I could sing or paint, I would.
I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.
I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.
Writing down everything I eat makes such a difference, because you never realize how much you're consuming unless you read it later in the day.
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.
For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.
Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.
I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.
At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right there in front of you.
If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy.
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.
You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!
I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.
There hasn't been anybody else write a Constitution like Madison. There just hasn't been, because that person hasn't existed anywhere but here.
The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.
I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.
Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism.
I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing for me.
It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.