Still Quotes

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

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.

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

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