About Writing Quotes

And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

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It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background.

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

I sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing them, perform the way I wanted to perform.

New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.

I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.

The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears."