Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.
I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.
If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.
In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.
How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.
I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.
I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain but I'm wasting my breath.
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.
Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldn’t. Blow something up. But well.
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.
After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!
I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.
Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young).
Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Work at your craft, write daily, and follow your dreams because dreams do come true.
Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.
I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."
I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.