Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.
For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.
Writing good jokes requires effort. Think I'll just start dressing funnier.
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.
I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
Listen to what children have to say-their windows to the soul are unclouded.
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.
Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.
What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.
I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.
When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.
I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.
Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.
Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.
Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.
[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.