Writing Quotes - Page 642

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.

I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

If I did get the opportunity to write something cool that people would like, I would jump at the opportunity to make it.

It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.