Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.
Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.
Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.
Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.
I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.
Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.
People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.
If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.
I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.
Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.
Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.