Write Quotes
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What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
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When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line.
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I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
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Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
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What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so happy and grateful now that...' and then explain how you want your life to be in every area.
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I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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What I really meant to write to you about today was to tell you that I read your learned and technical and I am sure admirable denouncements of Walt Whitman with a respectful attention due to so much earnestness; and when I had done, and wondered awhile pleasantly at the amount of time for letter-writing the Foreign Office allows its young men, I stretched myself, and got my hat, and went down to the river; and I sat at the water's edge in the middle of a great many buttercups; and there was a little wind; and the little wind knocked the heads of the buttercups together; and it seemed to amuse them, or else something else did, for I do assure you I thought I heard them laugh.
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Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.
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If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
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Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?
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Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.
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I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
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It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.
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I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
