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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.
I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"
So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.
I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.
I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.
I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head
The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.
I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.
When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
I am inspired musically by anyone who can write a song that can bring me to tears.
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
I dream too much, and I don't write enough, and I'm trying to find God everywhere.
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.
If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.
As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.