Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.
History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.
I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think
I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.
If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.
I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.
Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.
Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.
What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.
Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.
If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.
Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.
Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig
One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.
Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.