Philip Kerr Quotes
The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.
Philip Kerr
Quotes to Explore
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
P. J. O'Rourke
'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
Aaron Neville
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Kami Garcia
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
Patrick White
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Salman Rushdie
Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
Karen Bender
There are no rules to writing a song.
Randy Castillo
Mötley Crüe
Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
Rachel Kushner
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
Eddie Redmayne
I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
Verite
I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.
Dan Hill
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
Victor Hugo
I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
Adam Clymer
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
C. S. Lewis
I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.
Jack O'Brien
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler
