Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.
What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret.
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.
I write a lot of stuff, and some of it I don't even present to Judas Priest. But having said that, my first love is to play Judas Priest music.
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.
Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.
Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.
There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.
Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do.
Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.
Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.
I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.
Sometimes, what probably makes writing songs really easy is that I've generally been attracted to situations that aren't always the healthiest.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.
Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.
I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.
Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.