Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.
Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.
Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.
To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.
To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.
I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.
My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.
I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.
When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though I'm not sure that's right
I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.
Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.
I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and they can be as long as I want them to be.
While we do have 50 years of terrific Avengers stories, many of which our writing staff has written, along the way, this has to live in its own world.
These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.