Writing Quotes

At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!

Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November morning!

We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we talk for hours and hours, Sylvia Plath and me!

Just knowing that you are there and you would be thinking about me while I am thinking about you makes my heart feel serene and contented.

Let's fall in love and screw up our lives even more?

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.

Flowers wither knowing that you exist.

Sometimes words I think are small come out big.

When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.

Life is truly lived only when we discover other faiths, festivals, languages and cultures.

Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation.

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's up to you to steer it.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

Dreams are meant to be realized, not broken.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing.

Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.

Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.

Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.

Freedom of expression is more than a fashion statement.

Be sure to bend but never break

Comfort yields complacency. Break free.

Writing is pure sweet freedom.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.

Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles.

I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.

People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.

I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?

Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.

Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.

I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.

The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy…

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.

Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening…

Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion.

Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.

…but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.

…you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life…We are all crazy and crazed.

Seuls les poissons morts suivent le courant' - Only dead fish follow the current

You ask me why I write. You might as well ask me why I breathe. I need oxygen to feed my body and ink to feed my soul.

People believe what they are told.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one.

The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day!

In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!

The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world.

And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.