About Writing Quotes

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

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.

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

Remarks are not literature.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

I think all writing is done through memory

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.