Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.
Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.
There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.
I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.
It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.
I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
I want to prevent us reifying 'the Internet' as something to be preserved like some people want to preserve the American Constitution as it was written.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
They have no discipline. They’ll still need us.” “Ha!” said Postel. “No discipline? Behold!!!! My cat has written a book! ...And she's published!" — Amok 2015
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'
I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
