Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.
I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
We try to write the best songs ever, and they come out kind of funny.
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.
I want to be able to write on my walls. I think that's the big thing.
I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.
In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.
When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.
I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.
We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.
Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.
Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.
No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.
At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.
What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.