I refuse to discover who I am, Wtf! I am' having to much fun being free from knowing. Shall we write poetry?
... (lady i will touch you with my mind.) Touch you, that is all/lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care/ the poem which i do not write.
When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.
And it was dark So dark at night And we held on to each other Like brother to brother We promised our mothers we'd write And we would all go down together
I wasn't born to cook or clean, but to read and write, if you don't like me the way I am, then go fly a kite.
