About Writing Quotes

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love from entering or leaving.

You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

I get a great high from writing.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust.

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

Getting even is one reason for writing.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.

No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.