Nothing Quotes

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great.