About Writing Quotes

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.

Writing is hustling of another kind.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but it's not quite in their hearts.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me.

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much interpret as breathe.