I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Lena Waithe won an Emmy for writing while starring on the Netflix show ‚Master of None,‘ but it might be more accurate to call her a Master of Everything.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

When I write, I try to become different characters.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

I write all my sermons.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

Football is unconditional love.

If you wish to be a writer, write.