Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.
I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it
The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.
I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.
I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.
Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.
Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.
You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.
As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.
I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.
Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.
If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.