Nothing Quotes

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

We all live in a time where we're supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.