Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.
It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.
I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.
I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.
I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.
I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.
Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.
I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.
I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration
Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.
The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.
The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.