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.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.
When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.
I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There's no tricks.
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.
