Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.
My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.
Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.
The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.
Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.
The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.
There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?
If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.
There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.
Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.