Home / Topics / Simple Quotes

Simple Quotes

Browse 7475 quotes about Simple.

Simple Quotes

“That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.”

Ifs Knows Writing Moments Difficult Realizing Simple Wonder Novel Path Fool Pure Solutions Logic Mathematics Carrie Evident Difficult Questions

Author:Don DeLillo

“True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.”

Writing Persons Simple Known Audience All Things Perfection Sane

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write.”

Source: Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays

“Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story. I was really blessed to have two amazing writing mentors who helped me along the way. They always encouraged me to be okay with a simple story.”

Way Writing Two Stories Simple Okay Blessed Core Layers Mentor Curves Screenwriters Novices Peeling Learning Curve

Author:Aurora Guerrero

“If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.”

People Ifs Want Writing Different Voice Simple Profound Rap Noise Loud Heartbeat Robbing Loud Voices

Author:Russell Simmons

“Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.”

Writing Moments Simple Profound Noses Awe Transcendent Awe Inspiring Aha Moment

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“If you're into writing and making people laugh, or just want to video blog something, you should get a simple digital video camera. And all computers now come with an easy video editing software program. Just mess around with that for a little bit, try to figure it out, then just put stuff online and have fun. Never give up!”

“The way that I write songs is pretty simple. I hear music first, much like you would when you're scoring a film. I usually hear a soundtrack in my head, and after I get that soundtrack, it tells me what it's about, what it feels like, what the emotion is, and the words come after.”

Way Feels Writing Firsts Film Song Simple Emotion Like You Soundtracks

Author:Lauren Hart

“A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.”

Thinking Knows Writing Simple Stupid Direct Method Critics Sentences Defects

Book:If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

Source: If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

“The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.”

Writing Stories Given Simple Reader Excellence Offering Heartbreaking

Author:John Steinbeck

“Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.”

Ifs Giving Writing Years Found Given Force Simple Effects Materials Tomorrow Picks Asking Occasions Unconscious Desks Declaration Contracting Count On Me

Author:Norman Mailer

“That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.”

People Thinking Writing Dream America Simple Doors Genius Miracle Hearing Insistence True Genius Small Miracles Simple Dreams

Book:An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer