Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off.
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.
I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.
I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.
I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.
I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.
If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.
I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.
If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.
We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties.
When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.