Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate
Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.
Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.
Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.
Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one.
... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.
Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.
There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair.
I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli
Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.
I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.