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I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when I wasn't able to control it.
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?
I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person; on staying close to the handicapped; and on my writing. These are my constant concerns.
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.
I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.
I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'
I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.
I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.
There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.
If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.
Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.
I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.
It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.
The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.
I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.