1,322 quotes found
“I had something to prove and went in the studio and started writing. I got into fitness and style and learned the whole craft. That was when I wrote everything on the album. I put out 'Don't Ya,' a...”
“Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.”
“We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Bec...”
“However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.”
“My favourite authors are John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer. Grisham rapidly established himself and now completely owns the legal space of fiction writing, something I want to do in financial space. ...”
“People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and ...”
“I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusiv...”
“My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the ...”
“When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, ...”
“The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands. ”
“When I have written my last word, I will have taken my last breath.”
“I do not think consciously of children [when writing] I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.”
“Don't imitate. Find your own writing voice and hone it until it is yours alone.”
“When I had my girls, I knew what magic felt like for the first time. I had created people who didn't exist before. Now I write for the same reason. Creating people and their life's stories through ...”
“If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.”
“Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.”
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.”
“Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.”
“Think much speak little and write less.”
“Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.”
