About Writing Quotes

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone.

I play piano and write better than I can sing.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

I am excited about getting back to what I do best and what my audience likes best, I am writing new jokes every day and soon Ill be telling them every night. Just me, one Jew talking and that's it.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

Style is important, but content comes first.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.