About Writing Quotes

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

I rarely write by myself.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers.

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

One writes to teach, to move or to delight.

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

Practice writing and speaking about what you do.

No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.

Write whatever you like!

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.