Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.
Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.
It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.
Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something
I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.
I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.
Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.
I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!
I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication.
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.
Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.
You have to live your story before being able to write your story.
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.
I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.
Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.
Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.
Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.
I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.