Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.
Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.
Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.
the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.
Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.
Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft.
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.
The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.
Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.
you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.
Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.
Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.
Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.
I can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it.
You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.