Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.
I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.
She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.
Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.
In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.
I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for.
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.
I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.
It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
What I love about Blink-128 is that we write catchy melodies with dark lyrics.
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.