Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.
I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.
The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.
A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.
If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.
I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.
It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.
You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.
I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.
I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.
I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.
I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.
My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.