Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.
As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.
If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.
The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.
I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.
I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.
poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.
There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.