If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but let's say Woody Allen. But the more I've written, the more I've found that there is a deep well in me somewhere that wants to express things that I'm not going to find unless I write them myself.
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth, and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there.
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.