Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Neil Simon

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Peter O'Toole

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

Salman Rushdie

I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.

How To Write Mysteries: A Writer's Notebook

It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.

A History Of The World In 100 Objects

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

Incriminating Evidence: The Collected Writings of Lydia Lunch

Learn to love people unconditionally. The light of love sees no walls.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

Simple Conversation

Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.

The Miracle

Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.

Master of Stupidity

I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, "Pourquoi?

Never Change - Montmartre

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy

I write more with the words I leave out.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Thinking and Writing in College

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.

The Politics Of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing And Art

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

Possession

Find pleasure in the path, even if the destination can't be foreseen.

Travel Writing: See the World. Sell the Story.

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations