In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
Gerald ClarkeRight now, I'm writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.
Anita DiamentI always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
Patrick DennisEvery piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.
Rumer GoddenInflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. [On writing]
Grace DarlingAs you get older, it's nice to be able to relax a bit about your appearance. Writing does that for me. It comes from inside me, from my brain and from my heart, and hopefully it has much more value than anything that's on the exterior.
Emma SammsTrue, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
[Thus Spoke Zarathustra from the Chapter 'Of Reading and Writing']
Friedrich NietzscheWriting is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris MurdochWriting a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don MarquisAs far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Boris PasternakI always did my best in writing to Santa Claus, but I never thought of writing as something you did for a profession.
Dee BrownI don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris LessingFiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana TrumpI am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Frances Hodgson BurnettDespite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
John AmosGenerally the people out on the pitch are the ones who know how to play the game, not the people who are writing about it.
Marcus TrescothickOrwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
John PilgerTalent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary
Jessamyn WestPeople seem to be writing off England and that's a dangerous thing to do.
They have a lot of very good players and just because they haven't been going well over the last year and a bit, it doesn't mean they can't win anymore!
Andrew MehrtensWhat a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
Liz CarpenterA great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Dame Edith SitwellThe digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas EngelbartI really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis JohnsonThe main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
Margaret AtwoodThe art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustav FlaubertWriting a book need not be an intimidating feeling, but rather it can be liberating, fulfilling and above all immensely personally satisfying.
Gerald GriffinIf you're writing a catchphrase before you write a character, then that's not a good thing.
Catherine TateI don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book - go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Peter SingerI think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
Philip LarkinThe key to writing real characters is not to treat everybody like a real person and give everybody a good side and a bad.
Jon FavreauMost of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
Ivern BallAlways be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril ConnollyThere is something very therapeutic about a piece of writing, many will tell you it is a quite cathartic experience.
James HoustonThere are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W Somerset MaughamWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee WilliamsWriting books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman MailerWriting is something that can be notoriously difficult to do, so when you get the idea you want to make the most of it.
Gordon GettyWhen you are writing poetry I often observe this serene sort of calmness that possesses you and takes you quite away from the immediate realities of life.
Annie FieldsI'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. [On the difficulties of writing - not writers block but loneliness]
Catie CurtisI am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
Hilaire BellocWriting a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette MidlerWriting songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
Gwen StefaniPlaywriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T S EliotA life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people
Thomas MannMy ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais NinWriting is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
Emilio EstevezMan is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai E StevensonWhen you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
Alice HoffmanI'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.
Joss Stone
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