Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!
No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.
If say 90% of Christian marriages were intact, people would be writing about it.
The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.
I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
Everyone can collect quotes, it's a bit different to write 10,000 original ones.
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.
I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.
I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.