Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
I write because I have authority from life to do so.
Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
I write for anybody struggling to manage their money.
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.
Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.
I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
It's really fun to write cuss words. Just in general.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.
Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.
What else is there to write about than love and loss?
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
When you cast somebody, you write to their strengths.
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.
We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?
Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.
Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.
We write about what we don't know about what we know.
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.