Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.
I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.
Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.
I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.
Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.
No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.
Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.
Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.
I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.