On Writing Quotes
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.
Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.
I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.
What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
