Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.
I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.
In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.
The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.
...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.
Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.
When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey.
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.
I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.
The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.
You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.
A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.