On Writing Quotes

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.

So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.